42 - Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1992 ~ North Shore News

Revue’s Coward half packs
bigger punch than Porter

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AND BORING AND THAT You
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© 1992 by NEA Wc,

From page 33

ficial opening of the The Seymour
Room in the Arts Club Lounge
earlier that evening.

The point, as | recall, was that
one cannot sing Coward without
an English accent.

t would add that one should not
sing Coward without a sense of
irony.

Accents notwithstanding, the
Coward half of this busy little
revue packed a consistently bigger
punch than the songs of Cole
Porter.

And | think the reason was
heart,

Coward plays with the intellect,
Cole can dally, tug and tease at
the heartstrings.

Coward is strong enough to
withstand treatment (although |
often wondered what musical

‘director and accompanist Bruce

Kellet might have achieved with a
song by himself at the piano) but
Porter requires an emotional con-

nection,

And that connection, either be-
tween performer and material or
between Simpson and Brandolini,. :
appeared to lack an honest love
sometimes.

Instead we got hard work, big |
smiles, just enough staging to keep
the look changing and some patter :
that Coward and Porter had the |
sense not to write, :

One example is enough: ‘‘Do -
you know who Vivaldi is? Vivaldi
is a f-folk s-singer f-from :
Nanaimo.”

Make allowances for me, I’ve -
never met Mitzi. The room seem-
ed to like the show and several ~
tables stood to cheer the encore:

lf you want a pleasant night out
where you can have a drink and -
hum along to tunes you've heard
before, the Arts Club Revue .

Theatre is a safe choice.

And if you need further in-
ducement, Tuesday nights are
dinner theatre nights in a smoke- :
free theatre from now on.

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