ALL SINGIN' ALL DANCIN' @ Town Hall Tonight

Shall I go out on a limb here & say that I am in complete, yes, COMPLETE & utter afterglow.

My quick & terribly incomplete favs,

I've Got You Under My Skin
Good Thing Going/Not A Day Goes By
Can't Stop Talking About Him
What You'd Call A Dream
It Ain't No Sin
Hot Feet

Milla, fanning herself

So. Much. Fun. It was inspiring, and made me want to go out and take 8 hours of dance classes a day. Some of Noah's choreography actually gave me chills.

Inappropriate medley was hysterical. Wow.
I also loved:
Can't Stop Talkin' About Him (hilarious)
That Means Nothing to Me (Nancy Anderson was fantastic)
What'll I Do? (one of my favorites)
Good Thing Going/Not a Day Goes By (my all-time favorite song that Julia sings)
What You'd Call a Dream (beautiful)
And the World Goes Round
Hot Feet
really, there were only a couple I really didn't like.

Was the sound really bad for anyone else?

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Can someone tell me what Rachel Rak did? Thanks

Rak did Kander & Ebb's "City Lights".

Ashley, I thought the sound was WAY off. I usually love Ross Patterson's Little Big Band, but they sounded seriously off-kilter all night. And that arrangement of "What'll I Do?" was awful - but the accompaning dance by Christopher Spaulding and the excellent replacement for Jennifer Dunne was sublime.

The "I've Got You Under My Skin" number may have been the single most electrifying number I've ever seen at Town Hall. Breathtaking tap and rhythm from Joyce Chittick, David Baum, Luke Hawkins, Noah Racey (who choreographed it) Kevin B. Worley and Jason Yudoff.

Bravo to Noah Racey to have choreographed all these numbers while dancing all week in CURTAINS.

Other delights were "Ten Minutes Ago" ("Cinderella") given its hottest rendition ever by Matt Loehr and Megan 'Abs of Steel' Sikora, Karen Ziembas' classy "The World Goes Round", and a tap tribute to Gregory Hines by the magnificent Kendrick Jones and a puckish soft-show by the delightful Harvey Evans who probably has the same tight butt he has when he posed bare for AFTER DARK in the early 1970s.

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Updated On: 7/31/07 at 07:33 AM

A general follow-up, I felt the choreography & execution on stage was breathtaking. I was in the front row marveled not only at the execution but the beautiful lines & turnouts in/of the bodys of the performers.

I only got 3 hours sleep because I kept replaying the tape in my mind. I just keep thinking that on so very few hrs of rehearsal, tech'ing, etc. what a marvel last night was.

I want more, please....

Milla

What was Julia Murney's number? Was it a dancing number too?

There is a fairly comprehensive review of the concert here:

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934296.html?categoryid=33&cs=1

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You can see some photo coverage here:

http://corinescorner.com/blog2/2007/08/all-singin-all-dancin.htm

Updated On: 8/1/07 at 08:38 AM

Vespertine1228 - not all of the songs were danced. "What You'd Call a Dream" was one of the songs that was just sung. However, there were more dance numbers than straight songs.

A totally wonderful evening!!!

I know it's a little belated, but I just wanted to also express how wonderful I thought this concert was. I definitely agree that The Inappropriate Medley was the highlight, and the only song I didn't know was the Gun Song from Assassins. They did a teeny bit of Gesthemane in there that it took me a minute to recognize...I don't think that many people recognized it because not too many laughed...or maybe they just didn't think that one was funny?

I was talking with someone who had the pleasure of sitting near John Kander, and she said from the first word, he knew the first song was Tomorrow Belongs To Me and started laughing so hard, before anyone else caught on. Aww.

Julia was wonderful as usual, and the number featuring Lorin Latarro and the boys was excellently danced. Hibbert made a funny cameo, and the joy at getting to see an original cast member of West Side Story on the stage (Evans), and have him be introduced by Racey, who explained that seeing West Side Story changed his life. Aww. The number was cute, too.

A little frustrations here and there, but overall, a great enjoyable evening, perhaps one of my favorite ones at Town Hall yet.

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"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli