Joan Curto: Broadway Women

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Joan Curto

Broadway Women

Drury Lane, Oakbrook, IL, August 25, 2018

Reviewed by Carla Gordon for Cabaret Scenes

Joan Curto

Closing the Drury Lane Oakbrook’s successful launch of its summer cabaret series, Joan Curto left audiences wanting more. Well accompanied by Chuck Larkin, Curto delivered a diverse program of older and newer material preceded by engaging stories.

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 She explained how “My Man” was originally planned for a trio until Ziegfeld decided it was more effective as a simple ballad delivered by Fannie Brice.

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 Then Curto delivered the song as just that.

 She mined well the sly wit of “My Husband’s First Wife,” written by Jerome Kern and Irene Franklin and first performed in 1929 in the musical Sweet Adeline. Carole King and Gerry Goffin’s “Up on the Roof” and King’s “Beautiful” made for a lovely pairing following Curto sharing how much King’s album Tapestry meant to her. A highlight of the show was “She Used to Be Mine” (Waitress) in which Curto plumbed the many layers of Sarah Bareilles’ journey, which reflects in modern poetry on how the positive and negative traits of humans coexist. Jerry Herman’s “If He Walked into My Life” has become a signature number for the singer.

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“I’m Flying” (Peter Pan) conveyed a sense of both freedom and the joy of entertaining. As usual, Curto was in fine voice but, in Broadway Women, it is her skill as a cabaret storyteller that flies.

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Carla Gordon

Carla Gordon is a singer/songwriter, director, and producer. The Chicago Tribune cited her among “Chicago’s most accomplished cabaret performers….a major player in Chicago cabaret.” Reviewer Pam Peterson called her “Honey-voiced wisecracker!” Ageless Magazine called her performance as Sophie tucker, “A gem!” Gordon writes custom material for singers nationwide. Her flagship show, "Blacklisted," featuring songs made famous by artists blacklisted under McCarthyism, has toured to critical acclaim. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Cabaret Professionals and on the Advisory Board of the Skokie Theater. Her songs air on WFMT’s Midnight Special and are being performed performed by cabaret artists nationwide. carlacabaret@aol.com