Judy Barrat
The Way I See It
Tom Rolla’s Gardenia, West Hollywood, CA, October 24, 2015
Reviewed by Mary Bogue for Cabaret Scenes
Judy Barrat turned a perhaps predictable evening of spoken word into a palpable, living, breathing experience with her cerebral perspective articulated against the brilliant underpinnings of Ron Snyder at the piano – without sheet music.
Barrat unveiled “Sometimes,” a seductive telling of the power of words, woven with great care and her memory of asking her grandfather to “Tell me more pictures.
” Judy writes in a full palette of colors with hues and intensities.
With wide strokes she painted comedic storytelling in “Crickets” – an amusing story taking place in old Mexico, and then a contemplative look at her father’s life with dementia, a broken tree in which you could see the inside, “secure in the knowledge that he would be there always” in “Ode to a Tree.”
Barrat revealed an energy-boosting surprise with the introduction of vocalist Angelo Divino garbed as the best-dressed Italian-American at the races, and pulled us into “Dream a Little Dream of Me,” her fully fleshed-out memoir as an 18-year-old girl who, with her girlfriend, spends time with two men who teach them how to bet, as she teaches them how to win. This was masterpiece storytelling.
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Jody Jaress sang “He Touched Me” in the background of Judy’s poem, “What Was That?.”
Ron Snyder created an exquisite moon-shadowed backdrop for Judy’s breathtaking “The Moon Fell,” a celestial dream of poetry which was stunning in its lyricism, filling our imagination with her richly picturesque images. Her encore, “Tango Argentina,” danced with all the drama, dips, and turns and left us with Buenos Aires energy. Barrat paints strokes of genius with her words, leaving us to imagine the possibilities should she paint ethereal lyrics next.