Barbara Brussell: This Moment

Post author:Peter Haas
Post published:November 4, 2017
Reading time:3 mins read

Barbara Brussell

This Moment

Don’t Tell Mama, NYC, October 20, 2017

Reviewed by Peter Haas for Cabaret Scenes

“Don’t ask the lady what the lady’s done before … ask what the lady’s doing now!”

That line, from a song by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh, could well apply to the inimitable Barbara Brussell. Absent from New York and living in California for the past ten years, she returned to sing in the Cabaret Convention and, the night after it ended, to perform her own solo show at Don’t Tell Mama.
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At DTM, the room was jam-packed, with the audience responding to Brussell continually throughout the evening with applause, cheers, laughter, and love. Accompanied by the ever-masterful Jon Weber on piano, hers was a generous program: some two dozen songs—most of them in full, some in snippets and in medleys—all delivered with her special heart-on-the-sleeve warmth and not-infrequent ad-libs and strands of mischief.
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The first half of the evening offered a variety of numbers.
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Included were two treasures written by the sorely missed John Wallowitch—“This Moment” and “I See the World Through Your Eyes”—as well as Bob Merrill’s “Mira,” from Carnival; Billy Barnes’ classic, “Something Cool”; Meredith Willson’s “Till There Was You”; Burke and Van Heusen’s “But Beautiful”; and Lane and Lerner’s “It’s Time for a Love Song.”

The second half was more show tunes, with a focus on songs by Rodgers and Hart from several of their Broadway musicals. Among the numbers: “Falling in Love with Love”; “My Heart Stood Still”; “This Can’t Be Love”; “I Wish I Were in Love Again”; and, from a film version of Too Many Girls, “You’re Nearer.”

It’s not usual to review the food and drink service at a show, but, considering Brussell’s jam-packed room, a word of appreciation is due for the unflappable bar and wait-staff.

Who will start a petition to bring Barbara Brussell back to town before another year flies by?
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I’ll sign.

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Peter Haas

Writer, editor, lyricist and banjo plunker, Peter Haas has been contributing features and performance reviews for Cabaret Scenes since the magazine’s infancy. As a young folk-singer, he co-starred on Channel 13’s first children’s series, Once Upon a Day; wrote scripts, lyrics and performed on Pickwick Records’ children’s albums, and co-starred on the folk album, All Day Singing. In a corporate career, Peter managed editorial functions for CBS Records and McGraw-Hill, and today writes for a stable of business magazines. An ASCAP Award-winning lyricist, his work has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Feinstein’s, Metropolitan Room and other fine saloons.

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chuckiepie November 4, 2017

“Don’t ask the lady what the lady’s done before … ask what the lady’s doing now!” should be Barbara Brussell’s theme song. If she doesn’t sing it in her act now, she certainly should in the future.

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