| Adrienne Warren, Norm Lewis, Kelli O’Hara, and Megan Hilty In San Diego | |
| Posted by: BillEadie 02:09 pm EDT 08/08/21 | |
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| Four Broadway stars combined with Rob Fisher to help inaugurate the new $85 million Rady Shell, a bay front concert space in San Diego. I take particular note for ATC readers, because the four made exceptional music together and with the San Diego Symphony, which plans to use this space for its concerts throughout the remainder of the summer and well into the fall. Part of the appeal came from the performers’ penchant for playing against type as a way of having some fun with each other and with the music. Ms. Warren, who was simply wonderful all evening, took on “Don’t Rain on My Parade” near the top of the show and had me thinking that, if enterprising producers ever manage to put together a Broadway revival of “Funny Girl,” they’d have their Fanny Brice in her. Ms. Hilty played Elphaba to Ms. O’Hara’s Glinda in “For Good.” Mr. Lewis teamed with Ms. Hilty for “Suddenly Seymour,” and he had the audience helping him out with a version of “Trouble” that might make audiences forget about that Australian guy. The concert built nicely, and in Act 2 the performers came out to do one smash hit after another. Ms. Warren topped them all with a version of “River Deep, Mountain High” that had the audience jumping to its feet for a separate standing ovation. The evening ended with the company performing “Aquarius” and “Let the Sunshine In” from “Hair,” supported by a group of back-up singers from San Diego State’s musical theatre program. Oddly, while both the Old Globe and La Jolla Playhouse contributions to Broadway were noted, there was no plug for The Old Globe’s production of “Hair” that is scheduled to start performances three days after this utterly marvelous concert. (I will have a TB Regional review of “Hair” after it opens officially). Bill, in San Diego |
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