#26
Posted: 4/4/13 at 1:10am
"I hear it was pretty horrible. Unfortunately Stritchie can no longer remember words to songs, so she talked the whole time."
I caught the show tonight, and that wasn't my impression. She says the show was sort of put together without much rehearsal, so they hadn't worked up many songs. It does seem the three song thing is pretty standard. She also said her pianist knows the words to everything, so if she forgets something, don't worry, she'll get through it.
She seemed very engaged, having a good time, and even went much longer than the reported 60 minutes of the first night. I think she was more in the 100-minute range tonight.
Where else are you going to hear stories about Hepburn, Judy, Bela Lugosi, Sondheim, Bette Davis, Bernadette Peters, Quentin Crisp, Noel Coward and on and on.
I'm not saying she was spry and didn't stumble, but she was still in charge... shushing talking patrons, telling the staff to stop talking, and entertaining everyone. It wasn't charity. We weren't clapping in sympathy or to be polite. She put on a good show. People who expected a lot of singing (and I did until I read today's reviews) will be slightly put off, especially not to hear Ladies Who Lunch, but once you push past that, there was still a compelling time to be had.
I caught the show tonight, and that wasn't my impression. She says the show was sort of put together without much rehearsal, so they hadn't worked up many songs. It does seem the three song thing is pretty standard. She also said her pianist knows the words to everything, so if she forgets something, don't worry, she'll get through it.
She seemed very engaged, having a good time, and even went much longer than the reported 60 minutes of the first night. I think she was more in the 100-minute range tonight.
Where else are you going to hear stories about Hepburn, Judy, Bela Lugosi, Sondheim, Bette Davis, Bernadette Peters, Quentin Crisp, Noel Coward and on and on.
I'm not saying she was spry and didn't stumble, but she was still in charge... shushing talking patrons, telling the staff to stop talking, and entertaining everyone. It wasn't charity. We weren't clapping in sympathy or to be polite. She put on a good show. People who expected a lot of singing (and I did until I read today's reviews) will be slightly put off, especially not to hear Ladies Who Lunch, but once you push past that, there was still a compelling time to be had.
Now t/d/b/a haterobics on here.
