Whatever Wednesday - Sing Ladies, Sing

Well  -Thanks Dad!   I treated myself to a fabulous  afternoon at the Meyerson  Symphony Hall in Dallas on Sunday March 30th.  Pretty much any entertainment these days, I say "Thanks Dad".  I  got  a  nice  inheritance  and I'm doing  stuff my dad  would  have liked.  This particular afternoon  was amazing, fabulous, and right up his alley - Show  tunes

the picture above is the  amazing Lay organ.  It was  not  used in  this production,  but still  dramatically pretty. 

So, yes I had an orchestra seat to hear Kelli  O'Hara AND Sutton Foster  sing  Broadway tunes and  more on a Sunday afternoon.  Does  life  get any better?  This was  a show they did  at Carnegie Hall.  Then they decided more of America  deserved  to  hear this and Dallas was their first touring booking. Wow!!!!!!

Voices soared. Kelli's soprano is angelic. "If  I loved you"  from Carousel was ethereal.   It  was so gorgeous in  this music hall. I got verklempt - truly a bit  teary.  My dad  would  have loved this. 

And  Sutton  singing  "Anything Goes"  and  doing  the original tap dance routine. OMG. Divine. 

It was an absolutely perfect  two hours.  I had goosebumps. 

 Here's the song list.  Divine unity of voices.  

thanks, Dad.  Love ya and miss you SO much.  

A Cappella Awesome

She stood on the stage of the Meyerson Symphony Hall and sang a cappella - For Good from Wicked. It was an amazing performance and a testimony to the acoustics at Dallas' premiere theater. Wow!

Idina Menzel is a superb talent and an entertainer. For one hour, she enthralled her audience with self-deprecating humor, charm, and a clear voice that interpreted sultry, sassy songs. Cole Porter's Life of the Party and Lady Gaga's Poker Face were just a few of the songs, plus she threw in some Police's Roxanne into her music mix.

I was the tall girl in the back of the church choir who never soloed, and realistically was never actually asked to sing. I was part of the charity program: "Here, you can ring a bell, when I point to you," said the choirmaster. Can't sing, can't dance. So what's a girl to do? Well, be a patron of the arts. I go to shows and support folks who can open their mouths and gloriously sing. Grateful for musicians, songwriters, and performers, I gladly pay to hear someone like Ms.Menzel, who shared her craft, never looked at her watch, and seemed to be enjoying her time in Dallas.

Idina Menzel did not disappoint. It was an astounding evening and of course she sang her showstopper from Wicked, Defying Gravity. I, along with everyone in the Meyerson, soared with her every note.

(I was in the cheap seats and I don't have a fancy phone to take pictures or record performances. Thus I'm grateful to the Dallas Morning News contributor above. I give him full credit for the photo and yes, by scanning it in I'm cheating. But we do pay a full subscription for the DSM and they keep raising rates. I hope they paid him for this picture. Thank you readers for understanding. The written part of the blog is all me.)