Bobby Patrick - Page 18

Bobby must jump on THAT bandwagon and sort through our impressive list of reviews and pick out the standouts for the previous 12 months, and so, here goes…

THE MARIO 101 A CELEBRATION OF THE MARIO LANZA SONGBOOK is lovely music sung in some lovely ways by a singer who wishes to pay homage to an inspiration

The title track THE BESTEST OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY EVER is a darkish comedy number about the worker bees in an adult diaper factory at the office Xmas party, and all the humiliating things they must do for that Christmas bonus.

Warchus' work to date has given him the visual storytelling senses needed to auteur his way through a children's story with a kind of abandoned maturity that teaches the audience that it's no good to be a grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes.

Clark’s approach to this work as an actress and a classically trained soprano shows her consummate ability to marry the two into a single performance that does not make one more important than the other.

Patti LuPone was electrifying and uplifting at 54 Below Tuesday night.

What’s fun is really fun and what’s beautiful is so very beautiful and this would make a fine addition to your holiday playlists

In all, our friends at Carnegie Hall gave us an evening of Christmas joy. The music was warm and familiar and gave the pops audience a peak into the work of a fine singer/composer.

It is our sincere hope that this is not the last MISS we will see. The ladies have something here and this 92nd Street Y evening could very well serve as a workshop for something really magical.

In all, my lambs, Regina Zona and Sean Harkness's’ IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE MISTLETOE gives us all some fine easy listening for our holidays. There are new takes on old carols and straight renditions of jingly classics all mixed in her voice and his guitar

In all, while SPIRITED has a lot about it that feels familiar, mostly owing to its nods to its heritage; it is just twisted enough to be a new twist on the old fable.

For those of Bobby’s readers who may have seen Billy’s movie in 1992 (all 1 of yo… Oh wait… they died) or those in NYC who went to see the show, you know as well as Bobby does (now) that this story is a gold mine of entertainment.

Gloria Reuben sang some season material and some standards in a recent performance at 54 Below.

That aside, Minchen & Co have adapted the score to suit the film medium, the cast has made good meals of their singing assignments, and the additional instrumental scoring by Nightengale is, quite frankly, gorgeous.

Suffice it to say that DISENCHANTED has something for fans and something for kids, but not much for those in-betweeners.

A Latin extravaGAINZA was had by all at 54 Below.

Bobby had a whale of a time with the swanks and swells of Carnegie Hall for the NEW YORK POPS BROADWAY BLOCKBUSTERS.

And speaking of that music, the sound quality is superb with nothing out of balance... It is all crystal clear, danceable, heartfelt, warm, and sweeping all at once - just a totally righteous recording

An album we fell in love with on first listening that will not be our last - especially since those holidays are almost upon us.

This third EP in his ROAD TO FIND OUT series (there has been an EAST, SOUTH & now NORTH editions with WEST next in line presumably) is a part of Ramin’s exploration of his self-termed style, BROADGRASS - a neologism (what? Bobby knows words!!) combining the conceptual make-ups of Bluegrass and Broadway.