By sheer will to entertain plus a strong likeability factor and bubbling energy, Camille Cacciatore Savitz succeeds in winning over her audience.  Her theme show is a set list of songs about kisses (“Besame Mucho” with muchos enthusiasm and ending with “One Last Kiss”... you get the idea).  Comfortable on stage, strutting and smiling, accompanied by a band, she has fun and it’s truly contagious.  Her naturally cheery, chatty autobiographical patter pushes some nostalgia buttons as she covers dating in more innocent decades and romantic fantasies.  Without having a polished or rangy voice, Camille sells the songs and communicates.   Cannily directed by The Singing Experience’s teacher/founder Linda Amiel Burns, jolly Camille brings the audience into her memories, jogging theirs, comparing notes with them, rather than being lost in her own recollections.  Seen at The Reprise Room with a packed house, the show was packed with good songs and good spirits.

Rob Lester
Cabaret Scenes
April 20, 2008
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