Barbara Brussell: Songs of Life at 54 Below

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Barbara Brussell: Songs of Life

54 Below, NYC, June 8, 2014

Reviewed by Peter Haas for Cabaret Scenes

barbara-brussell-500“This is what cabaret is all about!” That was the sentiment, actually exclaimed in those words, that swept through a standing, cheering audience at Don’t Tell Mama as Barbara Brussell completed her show.
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The occasion: her return to New York—one visit, one performance—five years after she relocated to her native California. The show was a
triumph.

Brussell began tentatively. Up first were several theater numbers, including Cole Porter’s “At Long Last Love,” Lerner & Lane’s “It’s Time for a Love Song” and a sweet version of Styne/Comden/Green’s ”Long Before I Knew You.
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” With a warm welcoming audience, Brussell’s confidence and power built: as she finished a moving performance of Sondheim’s “In Buddy’s Eyes,” the audience cheered. Barbara Brussell was back.

Supported by the skillful, sensitive accompaniment of Musical Director Tedd Firth, Brussell’s was a first-class, varied program. The evening’s songwriters included Charles Aznavour (“Happy Anniversary”), Mickey Leonard and Herb Martin (“The Kind of Man a Woman Needs,” from The Yearling), Babbie Green (the comic number “I Wish”), John
Bucchino and Lindy Robbins (“Strangers Once Again”), and more Lerner & Lane: “What Did I Have That I Don’t Have?,” familiar to her fans, yet it felt fresh and moving anew in Brussell’s hands.

At encore time, Barbara gave the audience a choice of two songs—both by Lerner & Loewe and both familiar to her fans: “Almost Like Being in Love,” from Brigadoon, and “On the Street Where You Live” from My Fair Lady. The audience demanded, and got, both—for an exhilarating wind-up—made all the more glowing by having Barbara Brussell back in town.
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