Slinky ‘30 Rock’ star beckons withsultry airs: Jeremy Gerard

Shimmering in red satin, curled up on top of the Steinway, Jane Krakowski opens her debut nightclub act at Feinstein’s in New York with Cole Porter’s “The Laziest Gal In Town.” For the next hour or so, she sings the heck out of sex-kitten numbers recalling Ann-Margret and Eartha Kitt.

Few contemporary performers have so perfectly mastered that come-hither personality well-known to fans of “30 Rock” and other TV series in which Krakowski has played the heat-seeking missile who nearly always gets her man.

Her show’s title, “Has Sold Out...Tickets Available,” is not so off the mark for an actress also well-known to Broadway audiences. Krakowski’s adorability factor is enhanced in the up- close intimacy of a nightclub, and her upbeat song list is mostly well-chosen. The highlight of the show is “Zip,” a mock strip-tease from Rodgers and Hart’s “Pal Joey” updated for her by the “Hairspray” team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.

Here called “Tweet,” the song includes references to Alec Baldwin, Kristin Chenoweth and Madonna. It’s so au courant, she jokes, that its relevance may have expired before she finishes the last verse.

Krakowski hits that one out of the park, as she does a rap- inflected “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend.” You can have your bed-head Jude Law Hamlet, your milquetoast mustachioed Daniel Craig across town on Broadway. I can’t think of another show that offers such high-spirited, unabashed sexual exuberance.

Those free-flying pheromones can get a little exhausting after a while, and you may end up wondering whether Krakwoski has ever had her heart broken. The only number that suggests a cloud in all this sunshine is Irving Berlin’s “Let’s Face The Music And Dance,” and even that one’s delivered with a wink and a smile.

A certain lack of soul renders the show slightly weird for a performer well past ingenue territory. For reflection or the torch, you may want to wait for Bernadette Peters or Maude Maggart. Krakowski’s not going there, at least not yet.