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1 week ago |
broadwayworld.com | Ricky Pope
Enter Your Email to Unlock This ArticlePlus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email:Existing user? Just click login. Last year I had the pleasure of seeing Reeve Carney do an evening of Freddie Mercury songs. He was astounding, perhaps the only current Broadway star who could navigate an evening of Mercury’s material and walk away unscathed.
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3 weeks ago |
broadwayworld.com | Ricky Pope
Jazz is America’s great artistic innovation. Its origins are particularly American. It is available to anyone regardless of socioeconomic class, race, gender, creed, or background. It is exceedingly democratic in that way. It was born in the American South, out of oppression and pain, and became a music that transcends that. It has, from the beginning, been about fusing disparate cultures into one sound.
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4 weeks ago |
broadwayworld.com | Ricky Pope
I was born in the 1960s and so when Sesame Street premiered in 1969, I was its target demographic. I learned spelling, grammar, and simple life skills from Kermit, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Snufflupagus, and Bert & Ernie.
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Nov 10, 2024 |
broadwayworld.com | Ricky Pope
There’s an inherent trap for a cabaret artist putting together a tribute show, especially one that celebrates another singer. It’s very easy to be so faithful to the tributee and to the facts of their lives that your audience loses sight of the artist presenting the tribute. It’s easy to become bogged down in times and places long ago when what is really important is why the artist loves the person they’re paying tribute to. What we’re usually left with is a wan copy of the original.
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Nov 3, 2024 |
broadwayworld.com | Ricky Pope
It has always been difficult to put Sam Harris in a box. He is a pop star, a Broadway star, a writer, a producer, and a cultural presence. It is equally hard to categorize his musical style. He has over the years recorded, pop, rock, big-band, folk, blues, standards, country, lounge, and Christmas tunes. His trademark style has always involved bravura singing with astounding technical facility. His vocal acrobatics were obvious from the very beginning on the inaugural 1983 season of Star Search.
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