What a delicious performer - exuding warmth and charisma, elegance and hoydenish sass (Filicia is right- here's our next MAME). What a treat to hear some of my favorite songs (I have no idea why "Hold Me Hold Me Hold Me" is so seldom performed), capped my a magical "They Say It's Wonderful" and a thrilling and heartfelt "How Can I Keep From Singing".
I knew from PIAZZA she could break your heart, but I never knew how FUNNY she was.
A comic highlight was "Victorias' Secret", written by her friend Jeff Blumenkrantz. An updated version of "They're Either Too Young or Too Old", it became an audience participation rom (in the same vein as Jeff's "My Book") where Victoria decided to find a date for Valentines Day "right here, in my American Songbook Concert!" She asked the men in the audience to raise their hands, then to determine which were unattached straight men, she gave orders: "If you were born after 1975, lower your hand...if remember when Hitler was alive, lower your hand...if you have tickets to Bernadette, lower your hand..."
"Christ, Bette Davis?!?!"