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Katrina/Gershwin Benefit-REVIEW/REPORT 9/25 in a nutshell...

It's very late...need to go to work.
But here's my quickie review/report for those who can't wait.

HIGH POINTS:

Bernadette Peters- No one is Alone
Idina Menzel- I'll Cover You
The cast of Spelling Bee- Interprative Dance to the wrath of Katrina and Bush
Liza Minelli- (c'mon..it's Liza)
Ben Vereen- memory (creepy I Know...but very touching)
Bebe Neuwirth
Megan Hilty
Shoshana Bean
The dance duet from the cast of Movin' Out
The cast of Hairspray - with Darlene Love singing- I Know Where I've Been

VERY LOW POINTS:

Patrick Wilson
The cast of Mamma Mia
Susan Lucci

DISSAPOINTING NO SHOWS:

Brooke SHields
Raul Esparza
Christina Applegate

ODD STAGE PRESENCE OF THE NIGHT

2 cast members from ALtarBoys (who never appeared throughout the show) at the curtain call singing NEW YORK NEW YORK with the full cast of ACT 2...Everyone from ACT 1 had gone home....


all in all...FUN.

and it was for a good cause.

(again,..this is just an opinion. don't kill me)

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re: Katrina/Gershwin Benefit-REVIEW/REPORT 9/25 in a nutshell...

I agree with all your high points and Susan Lucci was awful.

I had posted on another Katrina Benefit thread earlier that Raul Esparza told me he wasn't going to be there tonight when I saw him at the flea mkt.
Disappointing nonetheless.

It was a fun evening.

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I agree one hundred percent.

On a different note, Victoria Clark looked absolutely beautiful. I was stunned. And, of course she sang beautiful too!
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re: Katrina/Gershwin Benefit-REVIEW/REPORT 9/25 in a nutshell...

Oh, Chris! He made me cry when he got all choked up about how much he loves the Broadway community.

LOVE HIM!
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#18

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HOW did Julia Murney NOT make it on your highlights list?? She was AMAZING!!! And sang such a beautiful song!!!

Also, Raul was out of the show last night (chitty) cause he was sick. He DID the flea market but was sick there too.
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That's funny, I could immediately remember that Patrick Wilson sang "But Not For Me" because it is such a wonderful song, unlike a lot of the silly syrupy pseudo gospel tripe that was being done. That idiotic song performed by that Inspirational Voices bunch was a real stomach-turner.
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#20

re: Katrina/Gershwin Benefit-REVIEW/REPORT 9/25 in a nutshell...

correction.

i now add Julia Murney to the High points list.
Forgot about that one..

although there's many more moments..that weren't either good or bad..just not noticeable.

another ODD MOMENT of the night

broadway's insppirational voices..and the mike dropping....that was fun.

and here's the question for anyone that went.

i know it was put together last minute...and i know it's on the spot...but this is broadway..and it IS professionals....
do you feel the sound/mike crew should get fired?
ya think a chimp was running it?

i know...it was for a cause...but.....was someone awake in that booth?

and what about the obnoxious flashing of flash photography....!

theatre ettiquette is dead.

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re: Katrina/Gershwin Benefit-REVIEW/REPORT 9/25 in a nutshell...

First of all I was sitting next to a woman who kept taking flash pictures and I almost stabbed her... Even after every announcement to NOT take pictures she still felt free while complaining that she needed to get a camera that didn't flash... Also Megan Hilty messing up the words to the Alto's Lament was kind of amusing to me.

Brian D'arcy James was pretty damn good too I have to say.
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It looked like there was someone in the pit.

I loved it. It was definately a one of a kind experience.

I loved the song "Wicked" sang to start the show off...
Idina: Somehow I got myself to the stage, came out at the end of the show, and I had some kind of closure.
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05

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