Judy Kuhn: Rodgers, Rodgers and Guettel

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Judy Kuhn

Rodgers, Rodgers and Guettel

Feinstein’s at the Nikko, San Francisco, CA, June 3, 2016,

Reviewed by Steve Murray for Cabaret Scenes

Judy-Kuhn-Cabaret-Scenes-Magazine_212Four-time Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn made her Feinstein’s debut with an evening dedicated to the music of three generations of the Rodgers clan: Richard, his daughter Mary, and her son Adam Guettel.  With the backing of musical director Todd Almond and the smart addition of cellist Dylan Mattingly, Kuhn covered the family’s similarities and differences in a concise, heartfelt evening.
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A pitch-perfect soprano, she never over-sells a tune, allowing the lyric and melody to drive her delivery.  

Emphasizing the set’s wide range of styles, Kuhn opened with a medley of a slow and rich “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” from Oklahoma! into grandson Adam’s hopeful “The Call” from Floyd Collins. Mary Rodgers is included with two numbers from Once Upon a Mattress: “Song of Love,” which is awkwardly mashed up with “Wonderful Guy” from South Pacific and the exquisite “Hey Love” (M. Rodgers/Martin Charnin).

Adam Guettel is represented by his aforementioned songs from Floyd Collins as well as his Broadway hit The Light in the Piazza. Kuhn is at her best wrapping her mezzo around the poignant “Dividing Day” and “Love to Me.
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” She and Almond team up on a duet of Richard Rodgers’ odd collaboration with lyricist Stephen Sondheim on the witty “We’re Gonna Be All Right” from the musical Do I Hear a Waltz?. Kuhn hits high notes with “The Sweetest Sounds”  from the 1962 musical No Strings for which Richard Rodgers wrote the music and lyrics, and “Hero and Leander” from Guettel’s Myths and Hymns, his song cycle based on Greek mythology. Juxtaposing these two numbers illustrates the depth and breadth of three generations of talent. 

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Steve Murray

Always interested in the arts, Steve was encouraged to begin producing and, in 1998, staged four, one-man vehicles starring San Francisco's most gifted performers. In 1999, he began the Viva Variety series, a live stage show with a threefold mission to highlight, support, and encourage gay and gay-friendly art in all the performance forms, to entertain and document the shows, and to contribute to the community by donating proceeds to local non-profits. The shows utilized the old variety show style popularized by his childhood idol Ed Sullivan. He’s produced over 150 successful shows, including parodies of Bette Davis’s gothic melodramedy Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte and Joan Crawford’s very awful Trog. He joined Cabaret Scenes 2007 and enjoys the writing and relationships he’s built with very talented performers.