Natalie Douglas

Tributes: Nancy Wilson

Birdland, NYC, September 23, 2019

Reviewed by Ron Forman for Cabaret Scenes

As a young girl in Los Angeles, Natalie Douglas was a neighbor of Nancy Wilson and got to meet her when she accompanied her mother to Wilson’s home to deliver a package that had been accidentally delivered to the Douglas home. That is one of the reasons that Douglas has been a fan of Wilson since she was eight years old. Her respect and affection for Wilson were apparent throughout the performance. Wilson considered herself neither a pop nor a jazz singer but instead called herself a song stylist.
online pharmacy https://imed.isid.org/wp-content/languages/themes/po/lasix.html no prescription drugstore

The same can be said for Douglas—she can swing, sing blues, or sing ballads with equal skill and she sang in all of these genres in this show. Her enunciation is always perfect and her between-songs asides are charming and often quite funny. She was backed by a jazz trio that could really swing, led by music director Jon Weber.

Douglas opened with “You Ain’t Had the Blues.” After saying that Wilson loved to sing torch songs, Douglas nicely torched “Angel Eyes,” vocally disappearing as the song ends “excuse me while I disappear.” She showed her ability to sing a romantic ballad with “When Did You Leave Heaven?” and dramatically performed “Guess Who I Saw Today,” followed by “I Was Telling Him (Her) About You, remarking that Wilson was one of the first females to record that song, written as a response to “Guess Who I Saw Today.” This show was performed on the first day of autumn so Douglas appropriately did a swinging “The Things We Did Last Summer” and a haunting “When October Goes.
online pharmacy https://imed.isid.org/wp-content/languages/themes/po/aciphex.html no prescription drugstore

buy antabuse online https://www.dentalharmony.co.uk/wp-content/themes/miracle/lib/wp-scss/lib/new/antabuse.html no prescription

” She told us, “When Wilson sang a torch song, you still believed that she would be OK eventually,” before performing a very slow and moving “The Masquerade Is Over.”

She got a big laugh before her closing number “If I Could,” by reminding the audience that in cabaret there is always an encore, so she did not leave and come back to the stage for her up-beat swinging encore “(You Don’t Know) How Glad I Am.”