Linda Lavin: Starting Over
Linda Lavin’s singing voice has always been an expressive extension of her speaking voice.
Linda Lavin’s singing voice has always been an expressive extension of her speaking voice.
The finale to this season’s prestigious 92Y Lyrics & Lyricists was the superb To Life! Celebrating 50 Years of Fiddler on the Roof with Sheldon Harnick.
Scott Siegel gathered an extraordinary cast all backed by the band headed by music director Ross Patterson.
“My Life” and “Movin’ Out,” both defiant expressions of self-confidence, were sung in the richest voice of the evening, easily communicating their message of self-determination.
With just a few hand gestures and called out chord progressions, he managed to get thrilling playing from his seven-member band, and his intensely charismatic singing colleague, Kim Richardson.
T. Oliver Reid’s bare-bones staging of A Man of No Importance, the 2002 Terrence McNally/Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens succès d’estime, provided many pleasures at 54 Below.
Richard Holbrook took his Songs of Burton Lane to 54 Below, where he and his program were a perfect fit.
For those of us who had the privilege to have seen Nancy LaMott in the eighties and nineties, the memory is indelibly etched in our minds.
Kenita Miller is a dazzler, a petite powerhouse with a huge voice and a pleasing eagerness.
Alexa Ray Joel has great genes.