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Program Cover: Audra McDonald
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We went to see Tony-award winning actress and singer Audra McDonald in performance after Thanksgiving. The performance was at the same theater where we have gone for our other big outings (Wynton, Joshua Bell, Pearlman-Ax-Ma). As always I was able to use my reclining chair and we were treated like royalty by our beloved Lisa.
The concert was PHENOMENAL. If Audra is on tour near you: Go See Her Sing! She is perhaps one of the greatest broadway singers of our time.
Her concert is about 90 minutes of (mostly) broadway tunes dating from 1929 to the present. She is accompanied by a jazz trio, but mostly the concert is all her singing and sharing stories about the songs histories and why she has chosen them.
We had lots of favorite songs, but were perhaps most moved by her performance of a James Baldwin poem which speaks especially to those of us struggling:
Mom and I so enjoyed this outing!
Blessings,
Emily
1 comment:
Wow, I used to watch Private Practice a lot and saw her there, but never realized she sang!
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