Emily Ellet
Uncharted
Don’t Tell Mama, NYC, February 24, 2018
Reviewed by Rob Lester for Cabaret Scenes
Singing about feeling at home after relocating, Emily Ellet, near set’s end, stood serenely, queenly—beaming, and beaming out Jerry Herman’s “I Belong Here,” it made another statement. This 2017 MetroStar Talent Challenge winner does belong onstage. Solid vocally, in command of varied material, she remains a “winner.
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” Directed by Stearns Matthews, the act neatly balances vulnerability with determination in personae as material explores life changes, challenges, and chapters. (Highlights: Richard Maltby, Jr./David Shire’s “Patterns”; Craig Carnelia’s “Flight.
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MD Jeff Cubeta’s smart charts for Uncharted are sleekly simpatico; drummer Robin MacMillan and bassist/brother Brian Ward are class assets. Some pop material wasn’t as lucrative for finding thoroughly engaging drama, but their lyrics made strong points, justifying inclusion. The show would benefit by showing Ellet’s range of vocal colors earlier, with something in lower keys in the first section. Also glimpsed successfully, albeit too briefly: humor. An ode to comfort food as objection of affection in Cole Porter’s “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To” recalled a classic twist when Porter’s “After You, Who?
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” was crooned to a bottle of Yoo Hoo drink years ago by the man leading cheers in the audience: DTM’s booking manager, Sidney Myer.
Betcha he’ll book her return. She’s sublime.