maude maggart will be song-styling at the oak room, through may 23. i have been wanting to see and hear her perform but have managed, for the last two years, to miss her. not this time.
it would be nice to have a friend or two to accompany me, but i don't think too many of mine are down for the cabaret. perhaps it would help if i told them she is fiona apple's sister? but perhaps not...
perhaps if they heard her rendition of the carpenter's superstar? i think it is haunting and lovely.
***
loneliness is a such a sad affair
and i can hardly wait to be with you again
what to say to make you come again
come back to me again
and play your sad guitar
***
need a bit more convincing?
here is stephen holden's review in the nytimes (ms. maggart acts a song with a fluid body language that lends everything she sings an added dramatic intensity...she wields old-time hollywood glamor to cast her seductive spell);
and will friedwald's in the voice (there are plenty of singers in new york clubs who can out-sing her, but none who can out-think her... singing the subtext as much as the notes or the lyrics, she creates a kind of jukebox musical of the gods).
and here is a link to the oak room site.
