Friday, December 7, 2007

ANDRE' RIEU

BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE ! ! !

This story 30 minutes after the show while it is fresh in my mind!

What a deal, what a show, what a showman, what an orchestra, what orchestration, what production, everything I ever wanted in show and more.

Rieu really lucky and of course multi talented, he gets to hear this orchestra and music every night. Rieu famous at 58 for his PBS funraiser concerts and multi extravaganzas all over the world brought it all to the spectacular Orleans Arena for one night only.

My personal theme, "so many symphonys to be heard so little time".... well tonight I heard the best of them all.

Obviously something of this magnitude would start on time...it did...77 minutes exactly a 15 minute intermissison and then 83 minutes in the second half, mulit encores and standing ovations.

With an empty stage Rieu and the orchestra entered thru the aisles onto the stage ....ladies in gorgeous colored gowns and the men in tuxes....playing 76 trombones.

It is called the Johan Strauss orchestra with that music and much much more to include 3 tenors 3 opera sopranos, Bolero, The Phantom of the Opera, Amazing Grace, America, classical themes and much much more. To the Blue Danube, couples danced, ladies danced, men danced , mothers danced with their children and one 70ish old man danced alone.....he was joined by a yound female stranger who gave hime a kiss at the end of their encounter.....it was lovely to see so much positive interaction.


This "thing" brought its own production to include videos on four screens, cameras on everybody, Christmas trees, baloons, snow flakes for White Christmas, boiling goulash, wine, roses and an orchestra that could land F15's on an aircraftcarrier or cure cancer...or do anything else they wanted. The orchestra was so good (with Rieu playing the violin, doing play by play and making jokes ) he hand little time to conduct! The audio flawless, never too loud, lighting and continuity perfect, the great Orleans Arena did not hurt any of this, 5000 of us lucky souls got to feel the experience. In the big picture somebody had to conceive the idea, the music the arrangements and produce the staff, just genius that's all!

A visul and audio masterpiece as good as anything I have ever seen....this includes you Sammy!


A 1000 A+ A+ A+ on the level of a Sammy Davis Jr. performance.

4 comments:

Sonja said...

Hi
So glad to hear you like Andre, and he was well received in Vegas. If you would like more info about him, go to my website
www.andrerieutranslations.com
Lots of info and translations of Dutch and German interviews and articles. Also if you go to the Parlor you will find the latest news.
Liefetjes
Sonja

AndreRieuFans said...

What a wonderful time you had. I saw Andre in Sacramento this Christmas tour, your Las Vegas show was as mine..Wonderful.

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Jeanine Ann said...

What a wonderful and true statement of Andre's concert! I am so happy you had such a wonderful time. Will see him in a few days in Toronto which will be the first of a World Stadium Tour. For more information on his concerts please go to our blogsite at andrerieufans.com or to Andre's official site at www.andrerieu.com
Thanks again,
Jeanine Ann

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