BY ED BRUCE edbrucevegas@yahoo.com
IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER ! ! ! !
BROADWAY COMPOSER/LYRIST NEIL BERG HAS BROUGHT THIS HOLIDAY SHOW TO LAS VEGAS BEFORE BUT THIS TIME HE LOADED THE TRUCK !
5 MEGA BROADWAY ENTERTAINERS ON ONE BILL WITH BERG AT UNLV'S HAM HALL IN YET ANOTHER MEGA TALENTED PRESENTATION.
8 MINUTES LATE KILLED A PERFECT SCORE BUT THEY DID DO OVER TWO HOURS WITH BROADWAY AND HOLIDAY MUSIC FROM TWO KEYBOARDS, BASS AND ALMOST UNNOTICED PERCUSSION (A GOOD THING)....THE SOUND THEY BROUGHT TO THE PERFECT HAM HALL WAS MIXED TO THE EXQUISTE EAR IN FLAWLESS FORM.
GREAT MUSIC SELECTION FROM THE HISTORIC SONGBOOKS...NOBODY BREAKING IN NEW HITS HERE.
BERG PLAYS THE PIANO, NARRATES AND PREVIEWS THE PERFORMERS WITH A GREAT BACKGROUND AND PERSONAL HISTORY TO MAKE THIS AN OVER THE TOP SHOW.
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER OF IMPORTANCE....(WE LOVED THEM ALL)...
CHUCK WAGNER...ABOUT 6'7" 285 AN IMPOSING GENTLE GIANT SANG FROM BEAUTY AND THE BEAST...JEKYLL AND HYDE AND SVENGALI....WHAT A POWERFUL EMOTIONAL FORCE.
NATALIE TORO...A VOICE THAT COULD BRAKE GLASS...SHE DID EVITA...TALE OF TWO CITIES AND COULD BE THE GREATEST PROJECTOR OF LYRICS EVER.
TED LOUIS LEVY...HE IS TAP DANCER...WORKED WITH GREGORY HINES AND SAMMY...HE DANCED FOR US...ESPECIALLY ME...MR BOJANGLES...THE CHRISTMAS SONG AND SOME CREATIVE ADAPTIVE MATERIAL MARRIED TO HIS HISTORY....I NEVER WANTED TO SEE BOJANGLES AFTER SAMMY DIED 20 YEARS AGO...AND I NEVER WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN....BEING LEFT WITH THIS PERFECT INTERPRETATION WITH SUCH PASSION...I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS GUY.
RON BOHMER AND SANDRA JOSEPH...HUSBAND WIFE TEAM....HELL THEY DID THE PHANTOM ON BROADWAY...HER MORE CHRISTINE'S THAN ANY OTHER PERFORMER AND THEY GAVE US 15 MINUTES OF THIS AT THE END...WHAT A PAIR...THEY ASLO DID SOME SOLOS....BOTH WITH OVERPOWERING VOICE IN THIS PERCT SETTING AND PERFECT SOUND SYSTEM....CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTS WERE POPING FROM THE SHRILL SOUND OF THESE TWO.
NO WAY THIS COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER....BERG ON TOUR THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY...I IMAGINE WITH CHANGING CAST...NONE BETTER THAN THIS ONE.
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