It was a MWAHVELOUS Night To Remember with a cast of Divine Broadway talent.
Heigh-Ho, My Merry Rainbow Tribe! Bobby Patrick your RAINBOW Reviewer here. Putting the silent T in cabareT to bring you all the T!
And the T this week my loves is not going to be one of Bobby's stirring and beautifully written reviews, because 10 YEARS OF MUSICAL THEATRE HISTORY at Feinstein's/54 Below on Monday night was so colossal, so wonderfully curated and performed by all that to review such a one-time epic piece of history would be to diminish it. Besides, all one could write was FAAABULOUS this and WONNNERFUL that and AAAAHHHHHMAZING the other thing, and it would all just be too much, and you all know Bobby is NEVER TOO MUCH!!
So here is a PHOTO PHLASH to make you all jealous you weren't there, AND all these lovely photos are by yours truly, who was there, so you can be jealous now...
The setlist for this evening included:
Anita Gillette (Legend) singing HER song from MR. PRESIDENT - THE SECRET SERVICE
Rebecca Spigelman proving I CAN COOK TOO (ON THE TOWN) & she sure did
Charles Busch breaking hearts with BILL (SHOWBOAT)
David Jackson Taking us all back to his GRAND HOTEL with a medley that everyone cheered
Molly Stilliens making HE TOUCHED ME from DRAT! THE CAT! all her own
Jerry Dixon beautifully reminding us that he was ONCE ON THIS ISLAND with HIS song SOME GIRLS
Christine Andreas (Broadway Royalty) has always been GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY from ON YOUR TOES
Ed Dixon recalling his 1970 turn in NO NO NANETTE with his own sweet arrangement of TEA FOR TWO
Carole Demas reminding all she was the first BAKER'S WIFE with her stirring MEADOWLARK
Anita Gillette then returned (for who can ever get enough of Anita!?) with her pal Jim Brochu who brought her a PINEAPPLE (IT COULDN'T PLEASE ME MORE) and proposed that they get MARRIED from CABARET
OG Sondheimer Jim Walton's silky voice took us back to OUR TIME from MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Sheryl Lee Ralph raised the roof, then brought down the house, reminding us that these things happen ONLY IN NEW YORK (THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE)
(Editor's note: There were two performances of this concert with different casts. Broadway World Cabaret attended the 7 pm show.)
All Photos By Yours Truly, Bobby Patrick
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Producer and Director Robert W. Schneider
Musical Director and Musical Theater Maven Michael Levine
Anita Gillette sings THE SECRET SERVICE:
Rebecca Spigelman sings I CAN COOK TOO:
Charles Busch singing BILL:
David Jackson singing from GRAND HOTEL:
Molly Stilliens singing HE TOUCHED ME:
Jerry Dixon singing SOME GIRLS:
Christine Andreas singing GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY:
Ed Dixon singing TEA FOR TWO:
Carole Demas singing MEADOWLARK:
Jim Walton singing OUR TIME:
Anita Gillette and Jim Brochu singing IT COULDN'T PLEASE ME MORE/MARRIED:
Sheryl Lee Ralph singing ONLY IN NEW YORK:
Maestro Michael Lavine:
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