By Andrew Gans
13 Jul 2001

Richard Dyer’s review of Judy Kaye’s recent concert at Boston’s Symphony Hall (from the Boston Globe):
“[Kaye] hasn't been in Symphony Hall in a decade, and we've missed her. She's still got style, presence, class, devastating diction, fascinating rhythm, fabulous technique, and incomparable pipes -- she can growl down low and blast away in the middle voice, but she can also soar up to high notes many an aging diva would like to borrow for the evening. She gave superb performances of ‘Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered,’ ‘My Secret Love,’ and an amusing tango-ballad from Magdalena, the only Broadway show by the great Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. Stephen Sondheim's ‘I Never Do Anything Twice’ may be a little outre for the Pops' family ambience, but Kaye, deftly accompanied at the Baldwin by Haile, realized that the only way to get away with this outrageous song is to sing it tastefully. She closed with a masterpiece of imaginative, dramatic singing, ‘Losing My Mind’ from Follies and tore our hearts out."

Another Judy Kaye concert review from Boston Herald (by Robert Nesti):
“The Broadway songs were performed by Tony Award winner Judy Kaye, who showed her range in a selection of six songs. The redheaded singer is one of those rare theater artists equally at home on Broadway and in opera. She has sung Musetta in La Boheme and Rizzo in Grease, no doubt equally well. Her soprano has deepened some with age, but she still can belt with power equal to Ethel Merman, as she exhibited with a swinging version of Irving Berlin's ‘The Hostess With The Mostess,’ a song that Merman made famous. She showed her deft comedic skills with Stephen Sondheim's deliciously risque ‘I Never Do Anything Twice,’ and her dramatic power with ‘Losing My Mind,’ another Sondheim classic that was perfectly suited to the darker shades of her voice.”

REMINDERS:

BETTY BUCKLEY

That Tony-winning dynamo, Betty Buckley, has just released a new slate of concert performances, which follows:
July 27 and 28 at the Bottom Line in New York, NY
July 29 at the Provincetown Town Hall in Provincetown, MA (Fund raiser for Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater)
August 25 at the Great Waters Music Festival in Wolfeboro, NH
September 19 at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall (American Songwriters Series) in New York, NY
September 29 at Centre East in Skokie, IL
October 6 at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ (with Michael Feinstein)
November 10 at the Naperville North Central College Performing Arts Center in Naperville, IL (with Michael Feinstein)
November 14-18 at the Mohegan Sun Cabaret in Uncasville, CT
November 24 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ (with Michael Feinstein)
December 6 at Abravenal Hall with the Utah Symphony in Salt Lake City, UT (Xmas program)
December 7 at the Ellen Eccles Theatre in Logan, UT
December 27 at the Verizon Regional Performing Arts Center in Philadelphia, PA (with Michael Feinstein)
January 4 & 5, 2002 at the Bushnell Auditorium in Hartford, CT
March 15 & 16, 2002 with the North Carolina Symphony in Raleigh, NC
March 30 at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, CA

LINDA EDER

Eder in concert:
Sept. 14 at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, PA, (215) 893-1999
Sept. 29 at the Eisenhower Hall Theatre at West Point, (845) 938-4159
Oct. 19 and 20 at the Atlanta Symphony Hall, go to www.atlantasymphony.org
Nov. 3 at the Youngstown Symphony Center in Youngstown, OH, (330) 744-4269
Nov. 16 and 17 at Jacobs Symphony Hall in Jacksonville, FL, (877) 662-6731
Dec. 5 at the Papermill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ, (973) 376-4343
Dec. 11 at Symphony Hall in Boston, MA, (617) 266-1492
Dec. 14 and 15 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, (800) 444-1324

PATTI LuPONE

The Tony and Olivier Award-winning actress has also just released a whole new slew of concert dates, which follow:
July 19-21 in Sweeney Todd at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, CA
August 3-4 at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles, CA (“Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda”)
August 24 in Sweeney Todd at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, IL
August 27 in “Matters of the Heart at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, IL
September 15 at the Rialto Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia (“Matters of the Heart”)
September 20-23 at Bass Hall with the Ft. Worth Symphony in Ft. Worth, Texas (“Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda”)
October 10 at Symphony Hall in Boston, MA (“Matters of the Heart”)
November 10 at Symphony Hall in Boston, Massachusetts (“Matters of the Heart”)
February 9, 2002 at the Tilles Center with the Long Island Philharmonic (“Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda”)
February 22-23, 2002 at the Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, NY with the Buffalo Philharmonic (“Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda”)

February 28 at Carnegie Hall in New York, NY (“Coulda Woulda Shoulda”)

Well, that’s all for now. Happy diva-watching!

--By Andrew Gans