Steve Ross
How Do You Like Your Love?
Birdland, NYC, February 18, 2019
Reviewed by Peter Haas for Cabaret Scenes
Here’s a recipe for a top-of-the-class evening of cabaret: start with the solo performer’s pianistic skills and charming singing style, mix with his broad knowledge of and clear affection for his songs, and beam the spotlight on Steve Ross as he presides solo onstage in a packed-house one-nighter at Birdland.
His evening offered almost three dozen classic songs that offer varying looks at love.
Included were numbers by Rodgers and Hart (the latter described by Ross as “bard of the bittersweet”), in a medley including “You Took Advantage of Me,” “Glad to Be Unhappy,” and “It Never Entered My Mind”; songs by Cole Porter including “Just One of Those Things, “Down in the Depths (of the Ninetieth Floor),” and “Nobody’s Chasing Me” (commented Ross: ”Nobody could write a list song like Porter!”), along with numbers by Stephen Sondheim (“a master of rue, romance, reward, and recrimination”); songs by Lerner and Lane, including their poignant ”What Did I Have That I Don’t Have?,” and a little-known Lerner lyric set to Gerard Kenny’s music, “I’ve Been Married,” written for a musical version of “My Man Godfrey.
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Included, too, were gems such as Duke Ellington/Paul Francis Webster’s “I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good),” Jimmy Webb’s “Didn’t We?,” and a medley of Piaf numbers.
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The closing songs—Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger’s “Thanks for the Memory” and Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz’s “I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan”—were followed by warm and prolonged applause from the Birdland guests.
