Broadway Originals

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Broadway Originals

Feinstein’s/54 Below, NYC, July 15, 2016

Reviewed by Joel Benjamin for Cabaret Scenes

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How exciting it was to hear the singers assembled by Scott Siegel warble the numbers they performed in Broadway productions, especially the more senior cast members for whom time has been very kind.

Bill Hutton, wearing an appropriately colorful tie, told of getting the lead in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice) in 1982, from which he sang “Close Every Door,” with a tremulous bright pop tenor.

Hearing statuesque Shelly Burch do “Unusual Way” (Maury Yeston) from Nine (1982), directing it to her husband Martin Charnin, was quite moving.  Speaking of Charnin:  His absolutely gorgeous love ballad, “I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You,” written with Richard Rodgers for Two by Two (1970) was rendered with heartrending emotion by Walter Willison.

The delightful Irish leprechaun Ken Jennings, the original Tobias in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd (1979) from which he sang “Not While I’m Around” with a youthful passion, following it up with a wickedly animated “Snuff That Girl” (Mark Hollmann/Greg Kotis) from Urinetown (2001).  The latter was accompanied by a truly hilarious story about why the Urinetown curtain was once unavoidably delayed.

Leading man Martin Vidnovic’s “From This Day On” (Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner) from a Brigadoon revival, had a youthful fervor and rich texture. Bob Stillman sang the wistfully rueful and very Cole Porter-ish, “Drift Away” (Scott Frankel/Michael Korie) from Grey Gardens (2006), relating his character’s fateful parting from the Big Edie character which sealed her fate. 

Daniel Reichard (pictured), dressed comfortably in shorts, was period perfect in his “Cry for Me” (Bob Gaudio/Bob Crewe), heard in Jersey Boys (2005).

This show opened with young Josh Grisetti repeating his ardent “Whatever” (Barbara Anselmi/Brian Hargrove) from the recent It Shoulda Been You and closed with Tony Danza’s epically sad/funny “Out of the Sun” (Jason Robert Brown), his brilliant turn from last season’s Honeymoon in Vegas in which he describes how his character’s wife sunbathed herself into an early death. Both men, the young and the old guard, were terrific.

As usual, Ross Patterson supplied the pliant, expert accompaniment.
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Joel Benjamin

A native New Yorker, Joel was always fascinated by musical theater. Luckily, he was able to be a part of seven Broadway musicals before the age of 14, quitting to pursue a pre-med degree, which led no where except back to performing in the guise of directing a touring ballet troupe. Always interested in writing, he wrote a short play in high school that was actually performed, leading to a hiatus of nearly 40 years before he returned to writing as a reviewer. Writing for Cabaret Scenes has kept him in touch with world filled with brilliance.