Alice Frazier is a "class act" - in dress, stage style, respect for her audience, and the songs she selects - as proved once again in her newest show, Broadway Without Boundaries, at The Hideaway Room @ Helen's. Her charm, warmth and clear soprano were placed in the service of a program of theater songs that, for the most part, are rarely sung today but deserve to be kept in circuit - particularly as performed with the intelligence she brings to their lyrics. With mercifully minimal patter, she moved easily through selections from such shows as Oliver (with its tender "Who Will Buy?"), Scarlet Pimpernel, Annie Get Your Gun. Anyone Can Whistle, Candide (neatly hitting the operatic peak notes of "Glitter and Be Gay"), Mamma Mia, and, from Lloyd Weber's Song and Dance, a moving rendition of "Tell Me On a Sunday." Rich, rippling arrangements and accompaniment were provided by Don Rebic at the piano.
Peter Haas
Cabaret Scenes
May 17, 2007
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