Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live

[Sunny11]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #1

Posted: 10/7/16 at 7:58pm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pxZevYx6vcw

Slay it girl!

[Mildred Plotka]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #2

Posted: 10/7/16 at 9:45pm

Meh, she's fine.  Nothing earth-shattering.  

"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"

[BroadwayConcierge]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #3

Posted: 10/7/16 at 10:53pm

I think she's pretty phenomenal.

[Valentina3]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #4

Posted: 10/7/16 at 11:54pm

Just beating Oak2 to the punch. I wish they'd recast her with Nathan Lane for the Broadway transfer.

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[jimmycurry01]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #5

Posted: 10/8/16 at 12:14am

DAMN! That was awesome! The more I see of her, the more I lover her. She has one hell of a voice. 

[BenjaminNicholas2]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #6

Posted: 10/8/16 at 12:40am

Nice.  Now let's see her do it multiple times a week, along with the remainder of the score. That's the true grit test of this show...

 

[rosscoe(au)]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #7

Posted: 10/8/16 at 1:21am

Well she just sold a crap load of tickets, that was rather stunning 

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[NYCLOVER]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #8

Posted: 10/8/16 at 2:05am

she might as well walk with the Olivier

[IdinaBellFoster]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #9

Posted: 10/8/16 at 2:06am

That was spectacular. I hope this transfers...we're long overdue for a proper DREAMGIRLS revival. 

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[Mark_E]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #10

Posted: 10/8/16 at 3:57am

Going to the first preview - this has made me even more excited! She killed it!

[sparepart973]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #11

Posted: 10/8/16 at 4:21am

I shall be there for the first preview and I am dying of excitement. I'm also seeing the debut of the alternate Effie on Wednesday. 

[Scarlett212]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #12

Posted: 10/8/16 at 8:20am

Wonderful

She certainly has what it takes.

I can feel her Effie coming through  

[QueenAlice]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #13

Posted: 10/8/16 at 8:31am

She sounds good but she seems to be borrowing a lot of ticks and phrasing from Jennifer Holliday. Hopefully in performance  at the theatre she is able to make the role more her own. Will be curious to hear how her acting is...

[madbrian]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #14

Posted: 10/8/16 at 8:34am

I thought it was terrific for a TV performance in what I assume is a fairly small studio.  I would expect a bigger performance onstage in a bigger house.

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[everythingtaboo]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #15

Posted: 10/8/16 at 10:17am

I thought it was spectacular. Of course it's not totally full blown acting-wise as it's a music performance, but you can see hints of the fire that I'm sure she'll unleash in the context of the actual show. 

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[ACL2006]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #16

Posted: 10/8/16 at 11:14am

Like it's been said, let's see how good she sounds once she starts doing 8 shows a week.

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[CarlosAlberto]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #17

Posted: 10/8/16 at 11:45am

She sang it as if it were a lullaby. Where was the anger? Where was the rage? It was very ...polite. Snooze. Yawn. 

[Mildred Plotka]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #18

Posted: 10/8/16 at 12:35pm

^ Exactly, Carlos!  Riley's acting has always left me cold. Seems to be some disconnect of emotion in her singing.    Fine voice, but there's not much there there for me.

"Broadway...I'll lick you yet!"

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #19

Posted: 10/8/16 at 2:21pm

It seemed like she was nervous about hitting the notes, and I was willing her to give the big bravura performance she was trying to...in other words, I forgot about Effie and was too conscious of Amber Riley's big moment. I guess that's to be expected in her first public performance, and maybe that number has always been like that anyway. B- from me.

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[Tag]

Amber Riley performs and I am telling you live #20

Posted: 10/8/16 at 2:26pm

One more time, with emotion.

(and maybe a bit of autotune)