I once again held at which I again flew over for this next experience of Al!
My tweets before the cabaret were:
5 weeks before cabaret to Al: "I have booked for Ex Libris on 7 March! Can't wait to see your newest special creation! You are incredible! See you soon!"
Al's reply: "SO honoured!! I will try to make it worth it!!"
On day of cabaret to Al: "My #1, "It's today"...only 20 hours "till I hear you sing once more"...so excited! Bring on Ex Libris! Am back in NYC now!
Day after to Al:"Have I died & gone to heaven! Thanks for your smouldering siren torchsong explosion experience my greatest artiste! Love"
Once again there were 2 sublime songs which had me in tears of in turn, joy and sorrow:
Firstly Al singing the first and only Sondheim song I have heard her sing so far and what a choice: the simply spellbinding stuck on "The steps of the palace", sung by Cinderella in Sondheim's musical masterpiece "Into the Wood", which Al sange with her trademark womanly maturity and girlish glee. Heavenly.
Then midway through the cabaret, Al sang the equivalent of Christine's "Wishing you were somehow here again" song of yearning for her late father which Al lost her own Dad in her late teens. Al's choice of song to sing about her Dad was the female version of Kurt Weill's "September Song" (originally penned for a man but later interpreted by among others Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and one of my local Aussie favourite artists, Judi Connelli. "These precious days, I'll spend with you" at the end of the song with Al pausing and whispering the word "precious" with overpowering emotional longing for her Dad. The most intimate and heartrending experience I have had in all my incredible experiences of this force of nature both as a performer and as an achingly real and exciting young gorgeous woman!
My photo with Al after this show taken by her Mom.
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