Cabaret dazzler Mark Nadler is on the road both literally and figuratively. In the figurative sense, Nadler is on the road to the past in his new show. That shouldn't be a surprise for a piano-playing, singing raconteur like Nadler who mines the Great American Songbook for all it's worth. What is surprising is that Nadler is not heading back quite as far this time. He's heading to 1961, his birth year, in Crazy 1961, which bows at San Francisco's Rrazz Room on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1.

In the words of a song written in 1961, it was a very good year.