Needless to say Al's first cabaret was glorious and as I tweeted to Al the next day after the show "Last nite you were your "naked" self". Al's intimacy, openness and heartbreaking honesty and sincerity about herself in this performance and also inhabits all her acting and singing work I have seen. It is all these qualities which set Alr apart from pretty much every performer I have had the privelege of experiencing their talents on stage and screen and then meeting them.
18 months on, two numbers I remember vividly which were spellbinding were Lance Horne's "Anyone who's ever been in Love" (which Al has since recorded on Lance's album "First Things Last" and the full sleepwalking aria from Bellin's opera "La Sonnambula" unaccompanied and with no amplification which Sophie, the role Al had already played at Kennedy Centre in Washington DC but went onto to make her Broadway debut in this role, only gets to sing the first note from in the play "Masterclass" before Callas stops her and goes into a soliloquy of her performance of this divine aria.
Here's the photo taken with Al & me after this show.
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