Mary Wilson

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Mary Wilson

The Royal Room, Palm Beach, FL, May 30, 2014

Reviewed by Jeffrey Bruce for Cabaret Scenes

mary-wilson-500I’ve been to the most marvelous party. Our hostess entered in a tight, blue-sequined gown slit up to here, and down to there, bewigged for days, and looking decades younger than her self-admitted 70 years.
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The ex-Supreme, sounding better than ever, went through the groups 12 number one hits in addition to (smartly) pacing the evening with several ballads, including “Here’s to Life” and “Body and Soul.” A warm, vibrant personality, she peppered her patter with self-deprecating remarks and I kept thinking, “Wouldn’t she make a terrific Mame?” She’s clever, smart, sly, very funny and a helluva singer. No more “ooo ooo, baby, baby’s” for her…
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now it’s Mary’s turn!

From Dreamgirls’s “I Am Changing” to “Someday We’ll Be Together” to her finale, blowing the roof off the gorgeous Royal Room with “Last Dance,” she had her capacity audience on their feet, screaming and dancing like we did in the (old) Studio 54 Ably abetted by backup singers Lucy Shropshire and Parnell Marcano, and a quartet led by Mark Zier, Wilson was unforgettable. What a star!

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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.