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| Tommy Femia's Judy Garland & Palace Guests Stay All Night, Sing Them All |
by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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| Photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert |
| Tommy Femia & Jack Aaronson |
Tommy Femia, paying tribute to Judy, the Garland vocal throb fully in evidence, returned to the Ice Palace, for a second time this season, on August 17, to host 'the Judy Garland Variety Hour,' assisted by the very talented Jack Aaronson at the piano.
Femia's Judy opened with a dynamic "After You've Gone," berating a deserter, and turned, on a jollier note, to the "Trolley Song." Reacting to the "controversial" film "Brokeback Mountain," our Judy exclaimed, "I made a Western myself-'The Harvey Girls'-but you didn't see me making out with Angela Lansbury!" Then she sang the mother of all Garland torch songs, "The Man that Got Away," and made you want to weep with her.
While Judy took a break, Dame Edith Piro serenaded a victim from the audience with "Capricious as I Am and Fickle," from Al Carmines' "Promenade," and turned him over her knee and spanked him. Martina Skyy, a vision in black and red, offered "Bring on the Men," from "Jekyll and Hyde," and Logan Hardcore wildly blended "And I Am Telling You I Am not Going" and "Rehab," fueled by that white powder and addressed to a hapless baby.
Judy thrilled us once more with a trio of upbeat numbers, "Hey, Look Me Over," "San Francisco," and "That's Entertainment." In another interlude, in addition to more appearances by guests mentioned above, Bastard Amber shared some Chinoiserie in a Far East take on "Anything Goes."
Femia closed with "I'm Still Here"-a song Judy might well have taken to had she lived a couple of years longer-with words adapted to reflect Garland's experience, and signature songs "Over the Rainbow," beloved by so many 'friends of Dorothy,' and "Rockaby Your Baby (with a Dixie Melody)."
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