“Leading Ladies – A Broadway Cabaret” arrives at the Center for the Arts at CSI as a live stage program built around the women who shaped Broadway’s sound and storytelling. The evening moves through well-known standards and lesser-sung material, using cabaret’s close-up format to foreground interpretation over spectacle. In New York, where Broadway history is both industry and inheritance, this kind of repertoire show functions as a living archive. One clear point emerges: the “leading lady” is treated less as a role than as a musical lineage.