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re: PROMISES PROMISES Benefit Concert TONIGHT
Posted by: lowwriter 01:18 am EDT 06/26/18
In reply to: PROMISES PROMISES Benefit Concert TONIGHT - hugoP 12:39 am EDT 06/26/18

This was a terrific concert and was much better organized than the previous Man of La Mancha concert. I agree with all your comments and also was in showtune heaven hearing the Jonathan Tunick orchestrations performed so splendidly. The backup singers also did a fine job. Besides the singers you mentioned I thought Hannah Corneau and Michael Lowney were very good singing You'll Think of Someone. The one song that seemed terribly dated was Where Can You Take a Girl which mysteriously wasn't listed in the program. Otherwise the songs have held up well. I got to talk to Jill O'Hara afterwards. I told her how the show was a big favorite of mine when I saw it growing up. And how touching it was to her sing again tonight. She grabbed my hand to thank me for coming. I never imagined that I would get to relive my experience of seeing the show 50 years ago by hearing her sing tonight.
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re: PROMISES PROMISES Benefit Concert TONIGHT
Posted by: hugoP 07:03 am EDT 06/26/18
In reply to: re: PROMISES PROMISES Benefit Concert TONIGHT - lowwriter 01:18 am EDT 06/26/18

agree about how wonderful Corneau and Lowney were-- I should have given them a shout-out, too. I also felt that is was odd that WHERE CAN YOU TAKE A GIRL wasn't listed...and agree it was dated (I meantioned in my post that it was somewhat cringe-worthy...but I still got a kick out of the performance)> Fantastic that you got to meet O'Hara....and got to relive a beautiful memory. My Broadway-going started in the mid-1970s so there were lots of original productions that I wished I had seen (also: FOLLIES, COMPANY, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, HAIR, et al)
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