Gabrielle Stravelli & Billy Stritch
Down for Double
Birdland, NYC, January 8, 2018
Reviewed by Peter Haas for Cabaret Scenes

One and one make two—as well as a grand evening of music—when the two are Gabrielle Stravelli and Billy Stritch. The pair warmed up a January night as they joined forces on stage at Birdland.
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With an easy stage chemistry and obvious pleasure at making music together, the two romped through a dozen-and-a-half popular numbers—solos and duets—accompanied throughout by Stritch on piano, Pat O’Leary on bass and Eric Halvorson on drums.
Among the singers’ pairings were Rodgers and Hart’s merry “I Wish I Were in Love Again,” Irving Berlin’s “I’m Putting All My Eggs in One Basket,” harmonized on a mash-up of “(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know” (Phillip Springer/Carolyn Leigh) and the Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer “How Little We Know” that brought out the sweetness of the songs; a perky presentation of “Down for Double” (Freddie Green), and—part of a Cy Coleman medley —“Let Me Down Easy.”
There was plenty of room for solos, such as Stravelli’s lovely singing of “Too Close for Comfort” (Jerry Bock/George David Weiss/Larry Holofcener); a ballad, “Single-O” (Donald Kahn/Johnny Mercer) and her own composition, “Cake of My Childhood.” Stritch shone on the Rodgers and Hart classic “Mountain Greenery,” and a strong “Then I’ll Be Tired of You.
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” (Arthur Schwartz/E.Y. Harburg).
The two joined forces to close the show with “Goody Goody,” the oldie by Matty Malneck/Mercer and “So Rare” (Jerry Herst/Jack Sharpe).
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