| Fantasia/After Midnight/k d lang |
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enoch10 10:37 pm EST 12/05/13 |
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I saw AFTER MIDNIGHT tonight. I liked it better as COTTON CLUB PARADE the first season it was done at city center but only because it was an entirely new experience. I like this production very much. Fantasia knocked me out. Either she's had more training than she 'fesses up to or she has the kind of instincts that can't be taught. Not only is she really good in this she is completely at ease, entirely comfortable up there. I don't know what I expected. I didn't really think about her at all. I certainly wouldn't have been surprised at either a dud performance or the kind of bravado that comes from compensating. Uh, uh. She had the entire audience, me included and much to my surprise, in the palm if her hand as soon as she started singing - and she knew it.
I dont watch american idol, I don't like any of her recordings (I've listened to them because I think she has such an interesting voice but the material is consistently awful and I've never heard her rise above it) and I didn't see her in COLOR PURPLE. I don't think her performance in it would have changed my mind, the performances I saw were fine - it was the book and the score that bored me but it may have prepared me for tonight. Again, she absolutely knocked me out.
How they are going to fit k d lang into this thing I have no idea. I saw no track and no costume that even might be a good fit. They can (and I'll lay money they will) put her in a tux but that doesn't solve the question of the material.
I hope this has a successful run. It has the potential to be a smash and a good one. It is a top notch revue. It looked like a sold out house tonight. I hope it finds this kind of audience every night. It deserves to.
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