Maria Friedman - Maria Friedman: Rearranged

Synopsis

Maria Friedman created and performed leading parts in the musicals Passion, The Woman in White (both West End & Broadway), Chicago, Ragtime, Sunday in the Park with George for which she was awarded with three Laurence Olivier Awards and seven nominations! Theatre concerts include a sold out series of Re-arranged in London (performing the repertoire of Sondheim, Brel, Bacharach and more), three seasons at the Cafe Carlyle (New York), concerts at the Barbican, Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall to name but a few.

Our Review:

5 December 2008

Maria Friedman uses this revival of her great cabaret performance at the Menier Chocolate Factory earlier this year to announce another reprise: that of her Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd with Bryn Terfel, which is especially good news for those of us who missed it first time round.

Again, Friedman makes no bones about saying she owes her career to Sondheim, though she now starts the show with a rousing version of “As If We Never Said Goodbye” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard. Her brilliant articulation of “The Worst Pies in London” while juggling props and dealing with a “customer” from the audience is a highlight, topped only by the mini-opera, full of colour and piercing emotion, of a stunning “Sunday in the Park with Dot.”

Leonard Cohen has shown this year how to deliver the perfect concert. But I am warming more to Friedman’s slightly sloppy approach, schmoozing the front rows (she came perilously close to embarrassing...

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Stuart McConnachie - 13 December 2008:

OUTSTANDNG. Maria had me crying and laughing. What a woman!...

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