Lorelei’s Gina Carleton, Lorinne Lampert & Missy Schwartz. Photo by Rob Lang.

Lorelei is a fine new trio, made up of theater singers Gina Carleton and Missy Schwartz, from Wisconsin, and Lorinne Lampert, from southern California, who are performing their show, “WaterSigns,” for the next few weeks, sometimes at Don’t Tell Mama and other times at Dillon’s. “ WaterSigns” was two weeks old when I heard the women, at the former locale, on November 19. Helping to coordinate their effort, in which love, the sea, and related subjects figure prominently, are director Eric Michael Gillett and music director and pianist D. Jay Bradley.

Paul Jabar and Paul Shaffer’s “It’s Raining Men,” sung in close harmony, with varied dynamics ranging from dulcet to brassy, serves as Lorelei’s snappy opening. The group evokes warmer climes in Paul Rolnick and Paul Guzzone’s new “South of the Coconut Line,” at once sultry and upbeat; Craig Doerge and Judy Henske’s “Yellow Beach Umbrella,” which finds them reveling in single status and anonymity; and Sam Coslow and Arthur Johnson’s “Marahuana,” a trip down Mexico way, eliciting their most “legit” sound. They sing the traditional, hymn-like “The Water Is Wide,” often the province of classical singers, with utter simplicity.

In a series of solos, Lampert salutes her own strength as she reflects tearfully on a lover’s intimacy issues in Jason Robert Brown’s “ I’m Not Afraid of Anything”; Carleton delivers the seductive credo of a woman who insists on being pampered in David Frischberg’s “Peel Me a Grape”; and Schwartz, taking mother’s advice, makes good by hitting the streets in Bobbie Gentry’s “Fancy.” With Lampert leading off, the singers work every wile as they intertwine Donna Summer’s “Bad Girls” with Cab Calloway’s “Minnie the Moocher.”

The trio makes a sweet escape, sweetly sung, in Christopher Cross’ “ Sailing” in a medley with a gently rocking “Ship in a Bottle,” by Amanda McBrooom; plangent “I’d Rather Be Sailing,” by William Finn; and an affirmation of choice in life in Peter Allen’s “I Could Have Been a Sailor.” Celebrating identity and accomplishment, Lorelei’s hopeful “Let the River Run,” of Carly Simon, helps round out “WaterSigns.”

November 5, 12, 19 & 26 at 6:30 pm

December 1 & 8 at 9 pm at

Don’t Tell Mama 343 West 46^th St

$15 Music Charge + 2-Drink Minimum 212/757-0788

and

November 16 & 23 at 1:30 pm at

Dillon’s 245 West 54^th St