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Posted: 11/5/04 at 9:28pm
I've been going all month to the Sondheim Fridays at the Duplex and tonight they start their Schwartz Fridays. The Siegels gave it a pretty cool review on theatermania (below) Anyone else headed down tonight?
"The Duplex has done what few clubs have ever done before and turned the late Friday night time slot into a gold mine. The club's booker, Phil Geoffrey Bond, is not only getting full houses for late shows starting at 11pm on Fridays, he's keeping the crowd there till 4am! Bond has done this through the establishment of an open mike night devoted to the
Phil Geoffrey Bond songs of just one composer per month. These sessions feature the talented Ray Fellman at the piano; two gifted singers who double as waiters, Brandon Cutrell and Kate Pazakis, serve as hosts. At last week's show, Kate Pazakis honored November's composer, Stephen Schwartz, with a stunning version of "Defying Gravity" from Wicked. Singing Schwartz's songs or, for that matter, the songs of anyone other than Sondheim should give the performers who show up better odds of getting to the end of their numbers with all of the lyrics intact."
Siegel Review
"The Duplex has done what few clubs have ever done before and turned the late Friday night time slot into a gold mine. The club's booker, Phil Geoffrey Bond, is not only getting full houses for late shows starting at 11pm on Fridays, he's keeping the crowd there till 4am! Bond has done this through the establishment of an open mike night devoted to the
Phil Geoffrey Bond songs of just one composer per month. These sessions feature the talented Ray Fellman at the piano; two gifted singers who double as waiters, Brandon Cutrell and Kate Pazakis, serve as hosts. At last week's show, Kate Pazakis honored November's composer, Stephen Schwartz, with a stunning version of "Defying Gravity" from Wicked. Singing Schwartz's songs or, for that matter, the songs of anyone other than Sondheim should give the performers who show up better odds of getting to the end of their numbers with all of the lyrics intact."
Siegel Review
"There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who wait for things to happen, and those who wonder what happened." ANONYMOUS
Updated On: 11/5/04 at 09:28 PM
