Mandy Patinkin Live in Concert

Our Review:

9 January 2009

In the first place, it’s quite an unusual concert. A speech of Prospero in The Tempest segues into John Lennon’s “Imagine”. An unlooked for thumbs-up for the new film Australia is followed by the most beautiful version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” you’ve ever heard. And then, two weeks late, we’re dreaming of a white Christmas sung in Yiddish.

And in the second place, Mandy Patinkin delivers everything you want and expect: a soaring, eye-watering account of “Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables, deadly definitive versions of Sondheim classics from Sunday in the Park with George and Sweeney Todd and a nod, in his first encore, to the show that he introduced on Broadway, Evita.

Thirty years after Evita, Patinkin finally sings “Oh, what a circus” on a London stage, and it’s electrifying. It was five years later, in 1984, that he first straddled the full range of Broadway musicals in Sunday in the Park, rev...

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atagirl - 19 January 2009:

I was lucky enough to see this and Elaine Stritch's show last year. Both consummate, passionate, talented pros. If only we were still making people like this- will connie and Jodie stilll be at it in 30 years time?...

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