Carolee Carmello and Barbara Brilliant
Carolee Carmello is a chameleon. She changes characters more often than Jay Leno changes cars. Last night she appeared in concert at the Arsenal Theatre in Watertown through the auspices of The F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company and the audience went wild. With each song she created a complete believable character taking you inside a bunch of Broadway shows in which she starred from Mamma Mia to Parade, from City of Angles to Les Miz, from Little Shop of Horrors to She Loves Me. Her talent is immense and it really isn’t fair that she never took voice lessons, no arpeggios no scales. Her repertoire and repartee were tight, touching, fun, engaging and entertaining. She didn’t throw a bunch of old chestnuts at the audience rather a string of melodious songs from the various show in which she appeared from The Scarlet Pimpernel, Kiss Me Kate, Little Shop of Horrors and many others.
CC Is now appearing in “Finding Neverland” in Cambridge at the ART. The rumors are that they are taking this show to the Great White Way. I believe it since Diane Paulus has had a string of shows that started at the ART such as Porgy and Bess and Pippin that became big hits on Broadway. It would not surprise me if Neverland does well as well. When you see Finding Neverland at ART, you know immediately that you are seeing a Broadway show rather than a local production. It was wonderful.
Carolee Carmello has been nominated for 3 Tonys and the question is why only nominations?
The audience was almost as much fun as the singers. I have never heard such rousing cheers and hoots and hollers for anything else in Boston. Come back soon Carolee.
Kudos too to Phil Reno her Music Director. If only it were as easy as PR made it look when he accompanied her. He was spot on and his singing isn’t bad either.
All in all, it we were So In Love.
Carolee Carmello and Barbara Brilliant
Carolee Carmello is a chameleon. She changes characters more often than Jay Leno changes cars. Last night she appeared in concert at the Arsenal Theatre in Watertown through the auspices of The F.U.D.G.E. Theatre Company and the audience went wild. With each song she created a complete believable character taking you inside a bunch of Broadway shows in which she starred from Mamma Mia to Parade, from City of Angles to Les Miz, from Little Shop of Horrors to She Loves Me. Her talent is immense and it really isn’t fair that she never took voice lessons, no arpeggios no scales. Her repertoire and repartee were tight, touching, fun, engaging and entertaining. She didn’t throw a bunch of old chestnuts at the audience rather a string of melodious songs from the various show in which she appeared from The Scarlet Pimpernel, Kiss Me Kate, Little Shop of Horrors and many others.
CC Is now appearing in “Finding Neverland” in Cambridge at the ART. The rumors are that they are taking this show to the Great White Way. I believe it since Diane Paulus has had a string of shows that started at the ART such as Porgy and Bess and Pippin that became big hits on Broadway. It would not surprise me if Neverland does well as well. When you see Finding Neverland at ART, you know immediately that you are seeing a Broadway show rather than a local production. It was wonderful.
Carolee Carmello has been nominated for 3 Tonys and the question is why only nominations?
The audience was almost as much fun as the singers. I have never heard such rousing cheers and hoots and hollers for anything else in Boston. Come back soon Carolee.
Kudos too to Phil Reno her Music Director. If only it were as easy as PR made it look when he accompanied her. He was spot on and his singing isn’t bad either.
All in all, we were So In Love.