11 O’Clock Numbers: The Songs That Lit Up Broadway!

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11 O’Clock Numbers

The Songs That Lit Up Broadway!

Feinstein’s/54 Below, NYC, April 20, 2018

Reviewed by Ron Forman for Cabaret Scenes

An 11 o’clock number is a showstopping song that occurs late in a Broadway musical, to re-energize the audience. Scott Siegel’s 11 O’clock Numbers… was performed every Thursday night at 11:00 for more than seven months at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency. This new edition, performed at 9:30 at Feinstein’s/54 Below, revived four of the original numbers and brought back two of the original stars—Scott Coulter and Carole J. Bufford. Siegel added nine new showstopping numbers and three very talented new vocalists — Brian Charles Rooney, Farah Alvin, and Mia Gerachis — to this new edition.
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Coulter opened the show as he did in its first incarnation with “Tomorrow,” ending with a breathtakingly long note on the word “day.” He returned to do a poignant “I’ll Be Seeing You,” including the rarely heard verse. Bufford reprised two of her original numbers: “The Winner Takes It All” and an emotionally dramatic “What Did I Have That I Don’t Have?”

Rooney performed two solo numbers: a very lively “Being Alive” and a spectacular “Last Midnight,” sung in the voice of a witch, as it is performed in Into the Woods. Gerachis reminded us that Liza Minnelli introduced “Sing Happy” in Flora the Red Menace. Alvin’s amazing soprano was on display in her dramatically performed “Memory,” and it blended perfectly with Broadway leading man Rooney’s voice on “Till There Was You.” Gerachis joined Rooney and Alvin for “Good Morning Starshine,” and then, joined by The Broadway by the Year Chorus for a rousing “Oklahoma!,” the show closed with Rooney, Gerachis and Alvin lifting their voices with “Once Before I Go.
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Ron Forman

Ron Forman has been a Mathematics Professor at Kingsborough Community College for 45 years. In that time, he has managed to branch out in many different areas. From 1977 to 1994 he was co-owner of Comics Unlimited, the third largest comic book distribution company in the USA. In 1999,after a lifetime of secretly wanting to do a radio program, he began his weekly Sweet Sounds program on WKRB 90.3 FM, dedicated to keeping the music of the Great American Songbook alive and accessible. This introduced him to the world of cabaret, which led to his position as a reviewer for Cabaret Scenes.