He's recently been most associated with his monthly Rickey Ritzel's Broadway cabaret show (which received the 2016, 2017 and 2018 MAC Award for Outstanding Recurring Series), but pianist-entertainer Ricky Ritzel has been on the forefront of the New York night life scene for almost 40 years. Writer, reviewer, author and clipmeister/historian Will Friedwald said of Ritzel in the Wall Street Journal, "He is the embodime…
