Martin Vidnovic
Broadway and Beyond
The Green Room 42, NYC, April 13, 2019
Reviewed by Ron Forman for Cabaret Scenes
Martin Vidnovic is one of the great Broadway voices still performing. He has starred in Broadway revivals of Guys and Dolls and Oklahoma!, and he won the Drama Desk Award for best supporting actor in a musical for Baby. His show, Broadway and Beyond, gives him a chance to revisit these and other Broadway musicals. His strong voice and dramatic skills are especially effective on romantic love songs.
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He manages to intersperse jokes between numbers, including a very funny one given to him by Fyvush Finkel. He is ably accompanied by his music director James Followell on piano and, on occasion, vocally.
Vidnovic opened by walking through the audience, his big voice booming “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning,” remarking afterwards that it took Oscar Hammerstein three weeks to write the lyric and Richard Rodgers one hour to write the music after reading it.
Followell joined Vidnovic on “I Love a Piano” and then finished the number with a dazzling piano solo. Vidnovic’s phrasing and dramatic voice worked nicely on a medley of “My Romance” and “My Funny Valentine”; then he concluded with a few bars of “Come with Me” (The Boys from Syracuse), ending with the phrase “come with me to jail.” This led to him jokingly saying that he was arrested as a stuffed animal activist. He sang two songs from Baby, including “With You,” ending it by fading away—as opposed to almost all of his other numbers, which closed with a big finish. In a warm tribute to his daughter (actress Laura Benanti, who was seated in the audience), he ended “On the Street Where You Live” by holding the note on the last word “LIVE.
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” He told of listening to Sergio Franchi’s recording of “Stella by Starlight” over and over as a teen and then proved that he has the voice to do justice to it. He closed with an ultra-dramatic performance of Jacques Brel’s “Ne me quitte pas” in French. He didn’t sing the Rod McKuen English lyric “If You Go Away,” but instead recited the translation of the French lyric. He closed by showing that he has the gravitas to sing “My Way” his way.
