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RENDEZVOUS: An Evening with Piaf, Brel, Aznavour & Friends
The best antidote to the End-of-the-Winter-Blahs that I
can think of is April in Paris. If you can’t hop on Air France for an extended
trip, try a 
simpler fix and go to the Reprise Room to see RENDEZVOUS. I promise
you, this light-hearted revue of the songs of Piaf, Brel Aznavour & Friends
will transport you. The singers (two men, two women) a pianist and a bass
player and the nostalgic songs are all you need to take you away for an hour of
restorative pleasure.
The attractive cast, Philip Anderson, Greg Purnhagen,
Katie Geissinger and Carmen Lamar-Daehler, open with the peppy “Brussels,” the
well-remembered Jacques Brel rouser, This sets the tone for the show and it
continues with group numbers, duets and solos of the very familiar
Piaf, Brel
and Aznavour songs you would expect, plus a lot of Cole Porter and several
other composers who wrote songs about Paris. Most impressive was Philip
Anderson, whose version of the Aznavour story song “What Make a Man a Man,” was
truly, as the French say, formidable.
Produced by Terry Moyer of Creative Minds Productions, with Musical Director Tedd Firth and bassist Sean Conly, RENDEZVOUS is a Gallic potpourri of diverting nostalgia. If you love Paris and this mixed bag is your bag, you’ll be loving it.
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