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Tossing Away Their Microphones

Some of the musical theater's best voices are heard in Broadway Unplugged

By: Joseph Marzullo and Michael Portantiere · Sep 28, 2004  · New York

(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)





What will hopefully be the first of many Broadway Unplugged concerts took place at The Town Hall last evening, giving audiences the rare opportunity to hear some of the musical theater's finest voices with no sound amplification whatsoever. Stephanie J. Block opened the concert with her powerhouse rendition of "Don't Rain on My Parade" from Funny Girl.






(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)







Among the other stellar performers heard in the concert: Nancy Anderson, who trilled "Romance" from The Desert Song...










(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)







...Cady Huffman, who belted out the title number from Anything Goes....









(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)







...George Dvorsky, here seen interacting with Scott Siegel -- the concert's producer, writer, and host -- during Dvorsky's performance of "Proud Lady" from The Baker's Wife...









(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)







...Ann Harada, singing "There Won't Be Trumpets" from Anyone Can Whistle...








(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)






...Marc Kudisch, regaling the audience with "My Fortune is My Face" from Fade Out, Fade In...










(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)








...Alice Ripley, whose performance of "Serenity" from Triumph of Love was one of the evening's several show-stoppers....













(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)







...Norm Lewis, giving his all to "Make Them Hear You" from Ragtime...






(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)







...Mary Testa, bringing the house down with "Hard-Hearted Hannah" from Innocent Eyes...






(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)









...Euan Morton, singing "Why, God, Why?" from Miss Saigon...













(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)







...Debbie Gravitte, who quickly recovered from a flubbed lyric to offer a moving rendition of "If He Walked Into My Life" from Mame...








(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)







...Darius de Haas, singing a song that many of us have done in the privacy of our homes: "I Am Changing," one of Effie's numbers from Dreamgirls...











(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)








...and Alix Korey, hitting the heights with "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from Gypsy.










(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)
(Photo © Joseph Marzullo)



Aside from the singers depicted above, the concert featured memorable performances by Ludmila Ilieva, Bill Daugherty, Barbara Walsh, Michael Cerveris, Chuck Cooper, A.J. Irvin, and Christine Andreas. The stirring finale to the evening was a gorgeous, full-company choral rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel.


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