Jodie Langel: Back from Broadway

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Jodie Langel

Back from Broadway

Boca Black Box, Boca Raton, FL, March 26, 2017

Reviewed by Jeffrey Bruce for Cabaret Scenes

Jodie Langel

“Stick to what you know best.” The proof of that old adage was evident in the terrifically entertaining show that self-described “Broadway Baby” Jodie Langel performed last night at the Boca Black Box.

A Jersey native, Langel is now a Boca resident, and South Florida is richer for her presence.

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 Starting off her 70-minute show with “As If We Never Said Goodbye” from Sunset Boulevard, the adoring audience knew that she was confident in not only her singing and dramatic delivery, but that her audience was there to hear show tunes with a “Langel take.” It was a brave opening and one that got an enthusiastic response.

A lovely-looking woman with a crown of “Bernadette curls” and a million megawatt smile, Langel’s patter was personable and endearing. And VERY funny. Luckily, she was assisted by her attentive and talented Musical Director, Dominick Raffa, on piano.

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Her Broadway appearances are enough to strike jealousy in any actor’s soul: First, at tender 22, The Narrator in the Rice/Lloyd Webber Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; In Les Miz she started off as Cosette and then played Eponine (“I Dreamed a Dream”); and back to Sir Lloyd Webber as “the youngest actress to ever play Grizabella” in Cats. At that point I thought I might zone out (how many times have you heard “Memory”?), but Langel really “made it her own” and I felt myself tearing up. Quelle surprise!

Regionally, she played the lead in Next to Normal, so she sang the gorgeous “I Miss the Mountains,” and then was joined by her protégée Sofie Whitney to team up with “Maybe” from the same show. Young Whitney will be a force to be reckoned with in just a few years. Evita, played when Langel was four months pregnant, was up next. (Yes, it was the overdone “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” and she got me again; as if I had never heard it before.) Having played Fanny Brice three times in Funny Girl, she closed with the glorious “The Music That Makes Me Dance.”

Her voice was what I found most fascinating. She has no semblance of a break between her chest and head tones, and her breath control is amazing. We are talking  about genuine talent here.

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Her vocal technique was, to say the least, impressive.

Jodie Langel has replaced performers in several  important Broadway shows. The one role she originated, in the musical Martin Guerre, never made it to Broadway. With her prodigious vocal talent, as well as that wonderful personality, I am sure that her opportunity to shine in a role created just for her cannot be very far off.

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I, for one, cannot wait.

Jeffrey Bruce

Originally from Fresh Meadows, Queens, Jeffrey has been in nine national tours, including How to Succeed… (Finch), Camelot (Mordred) and Peter Pan (Hook). He has also had the pleasure to play leads in the entire Neil Simon catalogue. On television, he was the permanent guest host, for 21 years, on the #1 local talk show in the country Kelly & Company on WXYZ-TV, Detroit. He teaches a weekly Master Class in Drama in Boca Raton, Florida. His theater reviews are on talkinbroadway.com. Writing for Cabaret Scenes has enabled him to educate the public as to the superb cabaret resources that South Florida has to offer.