ALL SINGIN' ALL DANCIN' @ Town Hall Tonight

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 1:11am

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

[Craig]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 1:16am

How could you leave out the inappropriate dance medley?

[ashley0139]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 1:45am

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?

[carymetorent2]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 1:51am

I had so much fun at this thing.

Loved the inappropriate dance medley, loved the tapping...Noah put together such an amazing show. And wow, can Lorin Latarro dance.

[jewishboy]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 5:55am

Can someone tell me what Rachel Rak did? Thanks

[Trish2]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 5:56am

Hopefully Noah will get noticed for his contribution here. We could sure use more of his type of choreography on Broadway these days. I hope he invited the right people ! Congrats Noah !

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 7:33am

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.

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

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 10:55am

Craig, I'm officially adding the inappropriate dance medley to my list this morning. In fairness, I was comatose & glowing after attending the show & the party afterwards when I posted.

Bravo to Scott Siegel, Town Hall, Noah Racey & all performers & musicians for a superb evening.

Milla, still fanning herself

[do_re_milla]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 11:15am

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

[ashley0139]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 11:27am

Milla- I totally agree. I so hope they make this an annual (semi, monthly, weekly?) thing because it was incredible. With Noah at the helm of course.

[theatregeek2]

Posted: 7/31/07 at 9:50pm

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

[ashley0139]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:32am

Julia sang three songs and did not dance a step. But we love her anyway. :) She sang "Can't Stop Talkin' About Him" (with cameo by Noah)- it was hysterical, "A Quiet Thing" with John Bolton, and "Good Thing Going/Not A Day Goes By" with Mairi Dorman on cello, who played at her concert in October.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 12:41am

There is a fairly comprehensive review of the concert here:

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

[Vespertine1228]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 8:29am

This sounds exciting. Sad that I missed it. Those Town Hall events are usually so hit or miss, and I just wasn't clear enough on the theme or the people involved in this one to order a ticket. Looks like that was my mistake.

Although I don't understand how "What You'd Call a Dream" is a dance song. Or a couple of the other ones listed here so far.

[Corine2]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 8:38am

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

[Craig]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 8:43am

Complete video coverage will be available soon!

[meredithchandler73]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 10:10am

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!!!

[ashley0139]

Posted: 8/1/07 at 11:22am

Photo coverage of the event is now up!

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=20387

Richard H. Blake is labeled as Matt Farnsworth in one of the pictures...

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 8/2/07 at 8:24pm

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.