Laura Osnes @ The Birdland Theater - New York City Article
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Mar 27, 2019
Laura Osnes
The Birdland Theater
315 W 44th Street, (212) 581-3080
Tuesday March 26 through Saturday March 30
I can't even imagine a moment, far in the future, when Laura Osnes will no longer be the youngest, perkiest, sweetest, prettiest, and most talented ingenue on the great white way. For this current show, she makes a point of not explicitly planning everything in advance, but rather asks the audience to write down requests, numbers from her many shows and albums - from Bonnie and Clyde to Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella and South Pacific, which she then picks randomly out of a hat. She titles her show “Repertoire Roulette!” but I would call it “A Hatful of Dreams.” (PS: spoiler alert, my choice is going to be Randy Newman's "When She Loved Me" - assuming she can read my handwriting.)
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Photography by: STEPHEN SOROKOFF
Author: Will Friedwald
Will Friedwald writes about music and popular culture for THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, VANITY FAIR and PLAYBOY magazine and reviews current shows for THE CITIVIEW NEW YORK. He also is the author of nine books, including the award-winning A BIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO THE GREAT JAZZ AND POP SINGERS, SINATRA: THE SONG IS YOU, STARDUST MELODIES, TONY BENNETT: THE GOOD LIFE, LOONEY TUNES & MERRIE MELODIES, and JAZZ SINGING. He has written over 600 liner notes for compact discs, received ten Grammy nominations, and appears frequently on television and other documentaries. He is also a consultant and curator for Apple Music.
New Books:
THE GREAT JAZZ AND POP VOCAL ALBUMS (Pantheon Books / Random House, November 2017)
SINATRA: THE SONG IS YOU - NEW REVISED EDITION (Chicago Review Press, May 2018)