Ensemble Singing on Broadway
The incessant celebration of Broadway continued at Symphony Space on Thursday with a recital focused entirely on Broadway duets, trios, quartets and their links to the traditions of grand opera and Viennese operetta. There was something capriciously wonderful about watching ten giants of Broadway (Musical Director Grant Wanus and performers Nickki Renee Daniels, Jessica Fontana, Santino Fontana, Jeff Kready, Rebecca Luker, Michael McCorry Rose, Kyle Scatliffe and Elizabeth Stanley and Sally Wilfert), all Tony and Drama Desk nominees, demonstrating their core skills on a week night, i.e. being available. On the way out I made a critical comment about an item from "Bridges of Madison County", which I didn't enjoy, and was set upon by a woman with a face like a boiled potato who stood in front of me and lectured me about what I did not know about Broadway. “It’s OPERA!” she bellowed, “It’s meant to be DIFFICULT.”
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| Photo: Maryann Lopinto |
