All the Feels: An Uplifting Cabaret

3 Stars, Washington, D.C., July 24, 2022

Reviewed by Michael Myazaki

The covid pandemic has been an emotionally difficult time for us all, evoking feelings of fear, isolation, and despair. In All the Feels: An Uplifting Cabaret at 3 Stars, Pinky Swear Productions explored these emotions as people are rejoining society.

Creator Karen Lange started the show by setting the scene as a gathering of friends who have been previously isolating. As guests Nichole Chimere, Rebecca Speas, and Preson Grover arrive, they joined Lange on “Hear My Song,” with the theme-setting lyric, “listen to my song that I sing, and trust me, we’ll be fine.” Additional guests Katie Wicklund and Eli Wassertzug entered performing a competitive version of “Life of the Party.” Grover described a spiritual quest with Queen’s “Somebody to Love.” The company offered a tongue-in-cheek “That Way” followed by Speas’ “In the Air Tonight.” Lange comforted a guest who was despairing of the world with Brandi Carlisle’s “The Joke.” Chimere offered a view of the world with a searing version of Gnarls Barclay’s “Crazy.” Wassertzug expressed his determination with Katy Perry’s “Fingerprints.” In the end, the assembled offered a positive outlook with Dolly Parton’s “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” expressing the sentiment “everything’s gonna be alright; everything’s gonna be OK.”

Pianist Zack Brown provided deft music direction, sensitively unifying a variety of performers and song styles. The show was directed by Natália Gleason-Nagy

The show was a forceful expression of urban Millennial/Gen Z sentiment in the current moment. It expressed themes of disillusionment, generational priorities and joys, the importance of friendship, and transgender rights.
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The song line-up gave a hint to what songs may be emerging as the next entries in the Great American Songbook (if they aren’t already).