Matthew Morrison with special guest Kelli O'Hara @ Feinstein's 54 Below

[ren598]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 1:12pm

Matthew Morrison performed at Feinstein's 54 Below this past weekend.  Kelli O'Hara was his special guest for the 5/22/2016 show.  

For anyone interested, below is my video of them singing 'Over The Rainbow' from the show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj9Gh10QWHA

[Sunny11]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 1:32pm

The New York Times gave this a great review, I don't think the critic attended the one with Kelli though.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/arts/music/review-matthew-morrison-in-concert-goes-beyond-genres.html?referer=https://www.google.co.uk/

 

[Jshan05]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 1:44pm

She is such a dream. Did they do any other songs? Or just Somewhere Over the Rainbow?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 1:46pm

Gorgeous.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 1:51pm

Very high quality video. They let you do this? Asked you to to it? I'm so used to any live venue forbidding any recording?



It's a good thing Kelli's husband isn't the jealous type. She and Matthew love to perform together. There was one of those 4th of July PBS specials from the Capitol Building and the 2014 New York Pops Holiday concert at Carnegie Hall. (I went to the dress rehearsal. Kelli told Matthew that her son wanted a pet rabbit. That usually doesn't work out well.)

At both they sang the balcony scene ("Tonight" from West Side Story.
 

Updated On: 5/24/16 at 01:51 PM

[ren598]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 2:33pm

For a place like Feinstein's 54 Below, I guess it really depends on the artist if they let you take videos.  I've been to some shows there where they explicitly say no recording of any kind or no flash photography at the start of the show.  If they do that, then I don't take any videos.  I've also been to other shows where there's no mention of any kind regarding recording videos or taking photos.  For this show, there was no mention of any kind.

In fact, I have been asked by a producer of one of the shows at 54 Below to attend one of his shows and take some videos after he saw some of my other videos on Youtube.  So it’s tough to say if you can or cannot take videos.  I know other people do it.  There are a lot of videos from 54 Below on Youtube.  But I've also taken down videos from Youtube because the artist (or a representative for the artist) didn't want their videos on there.  So I’m respectful of their wishes. 

[ren598]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 3:26pm

Sounds like the Times review was of the Saturday show.  Everything mentioned in the review was the same for the Sunday show with the addition of the Kelli duet.

Here's another video from the Sunday show.  The Hairspray medley to close the show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45D-pJq4IyE

[Sunny11]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 4:08pm

^ Watching that makes me want to see him play Corny Collins in a revival someday. He has the showmenship and dance skill required for that character. 

[mpkie]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 4:42pm

Love it... Thanks for sharing! Missing the show since I didn't know if I would be available that far in advance (I am, ugh! so annoying lol) and hesitated at the ticket price... which didn't stop it from being sold out immediately, anyway!

 

ren598 said: "In fact, I have been asked by a producer of one of the shows at 54 Below to attend one of his shows and take some videos after he saw some of my other videos on Youtube."

Did you get compensated? I would love to do this (for free) if I got compensated with a free show!

The only show I've been to there that explicitly did not allow recording was Jeremy Jordan in 2015. Which stinks because Benjamin Rauhala didn't release videos from the show and now... It's completely wiped from my brain really, since they were all special arrangements that I've never seen Jeremy do elsewhere. I really didn't understand it because, like, he and Ben didn't want anybody to ever know what they did in that show? *shrugs* What a shame though not to have it recorded for posterity, either to be released by the producer on YT or as a live album. I was introduced to his greatness through his other 54 Below videos, after all... Meh.

[ren598]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 4:54pm

I wasn't able to take the producer up on his offer since the show was during the week and I live in Boston.  If it was on the weekend, I definitely would have done it.  I would have been compensated with the free show.  

Jeremy Jordan was whom I was referring to when they explicitly said no recording.  That's why there's almost no video on Youtube from his 54 Below engagement last year.

[ren598]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 10:39pm

Matthew Morrison remembers Cory Monteith with his performance of Coldplay's 'Fix You'.

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=Gfjfn55Xl68

[ren598]

Posted: 5/25/16 at 7:04pm

More Matthew Morrison @ Feinstein's 54 Below videos.

Finding Neverland medley:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiIxxZ2qeoM&index=3&list=PLiHqD-T4otnCPyRAD3mpgEzdacSSEPpY4

South Pacific medley:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ3X_7m7qMY&list=PLiHqD-T4otnCPyRAD3mpgEzdacSSEPpY4&index=4

The Light In The Piazza medley:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQH17KmstvA&list=PLiHqD-T4otnCPyRAD3mpgEzdacSSEPpY4&index=12

Playlist with all the videos:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiHqD-T4otnCPyRAD3mpgEzdacSSEPpY4

[Marianne2]

Posted: 5/25/16 at 11:29pm

Who did he perform Over the Rainbow with at the shows without Kelli? I was at his concert in Morristown, Nj on Friday and he did it with some girl he met through some master class program thing in DC. 

[ren598]

Posted: 5/25/16 at 11:43pm

At least one of the other shows at Feinstein's 54 Below, Matthew performed Over The Rainbow with Rachel Levy. 

I found this on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYs8BrDS8ls

[BroadwayGuy12]

Posted: 5/26/16 at 1:07am

His special guest tonight was Laura Michelle Kelly.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 5/26/16 at 11:20am

ren598 said: "At least one of the other shows at Feinstein's 54 Below, Matthew performed Over The Rainbow with Rachel Levy. 

I found this on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYs8BrDS8ls

Thanks. That's who was with him in NJ.

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