Sally Mayes and Jeff Harnar
Double Take
Laurie Beechman Theatre, NYC, September 14, 2016
Reviewed by Ron Forman for Cabaret Scenes
What happens when two of today’s most experienced and best cabaret artists combine their talents on stage? When it is Sally Mayes and Jeff Harnar, you double your pleasure and double your fun, to steal a line from an old chewing gum ad. The show opens with Mayes and Harnar amusingly chatting about what it takes to put a new show together and finding a title for it.
Double Take was chosen after going through an increasingly funny list of two-word phrases beginning with the word “double.” Both performers were in great voice and their voices blended particularly well on their duets.
The casual banter between them left me feeling that I was overhearing a conversation between two old friends.
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The opener, “Double Take” written by Mayes and musical director Alex Rybeck, was a comedy number dealing with the great two-person teams of the past. A chat about the team of Doris Day and Rock Hudson led into “Any Way the Wind Blows,” which even had a snippet of the Day hit “Que Sera, Sera” in it. Their first love song was the calypso number “I Don’t Think I’ll End It All Today” which Harnar had performed in his award-winning show The 1959 Broadway Songbook. He had the audience in stitches with his performance of “Why Did You Have to Split” (Alex Rybeck/Seth Freidman), about the multi-personality Sybil.
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Mayes combined her talents as vocalist and songwriter with a warm “Somebody Sent Me an Angel,” dedicated to her husband, bassist Bob Renino on stage behind her.
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Harnar did a very powerful “Come Back to Me,” followed by Mayes’ soft and touching “(Have I Stayed) Too Long at the Fair.” The duo combined forces to close with Ann Hampton Callaway’s “At the Same Time.” The encore was a spirited “That’s All.”
