Audra gave a terrific performance at the San Francisco Symphony Hall last Friday evening. Here’s an incomplete set list based solely on my memory and in no particular order, except for those noted:
I Am What I Am (opening number)
Stars and Moon
I Won’t Mind
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught/Children Will Listen
It’s Lovely Up Here from “On a Clear Day…” (a mash-up with a song I don’t remember)
Sing Happy from “Flora the Red Menace”
a song originally sung by Ella Fitzgerald as a scat number, to which lyrics were added based on two lines that Ella did NOT scat
Simple Little Things from “110 in the Shade”
a comic number/novelty song about a woman whose horrible ex-boyfriend friends her on Facebook
I Could Have Danced All Night (closer of 1st half of concert that included an audience sing-along)
Summertime
Vanilla Ice Cream
Chain of Love, a Barbara Cook song from “A Grass Harp”
I’ll Be Here from “Ordinary Days”
Never Will I Marry/Being Alive
Make Someone Happy
Climb Every Mountain (the closer before the encore, whose title I don’t remember)
Needless to say, Audra’s presence and voice were lovely, as was her relaxed sense of humor.
Related question piggybacking on the thread below about the rigorous vocal demands of “My Fair Lady” that gave such trouble to Julie Andrews, and now possibly, to Lauren Ambrose:
How did Audra sing the role of Billie Holliday – whose voice had a beautiful quality that nonetheless probably would be considered “unhealthy on the vocal cords” by most voice teachers – not damage her classically trained voice? Does she still have the same vocal coach that she has said got her through the aria she had to perform night after night when she was doing “Master Class”? |
