Michael Feinstein and Christine Ebersole: Good Friends
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Sep 8, 2009
Closed Sep 12, 2009
Visit the Michael Feinstein and Christine Ebersole: Good Friends website:
http://feinsteinsatloewsregency.com
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Feinstein's at Loews Regency, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post, presents the first joint engagement of the club's founder Michael Feinstein and two time Tony Award winning Broadway and TV star Christine Ebersole. Their new duet show Good Friends will feature classic standards and Broadway hits by Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Rodgers & Hart and Jerry Herman, in addition to never-before-heard rarities from the Great American Songbook. Feinstein's longtime Musical Director John Oddo will lead the all-star band.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
RE:Good show - really bad location
I was thrilled to hear Feinstein and Ebersole last Thursday night. Unfortunately, the Regency is not the place to hear them. The dinner theater is next to a bar and you could hear the BAR NOISE throughout the concert. Also the tables are much too close together. Save your money and skip the Regency. Ill be first to buy tickets again somewhere else, when they are singing at a place worthy of their talent.
Reviewed by Charles Bieber
on Saturday, Sep 12th, 2009
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Michael Feinstein as Conrad Birdie? Christine Ebersole as Fanny Brice? For various reasons -- age being one of them -- these are two sights one will not see on Broadway even in our revival-happy age, but you can get a taste of them this week in the pair's positively effervescent cabaret show, Good Friends, at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency through September 12.
To watch the normally subdued Feinstein give a wham-bang punch (and a few swivel-hips) to Charles Strouse and Lee Adams' "A Lot of Livin' to Do" -- which has been preceded by a decidedly mellow verse of "Put on a Happy Face" -- is one of the year's most memorable moments. Still, it's not more memorable than Ebersole's mesmerizing r[...]