From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V9 #59 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Tuesday, July 12 2005 Volume 09 : Number 059 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Awesome Show! ["Ron Rosen" ] Re: Awesome Show! [PBacoustic@aol.com] Re: Awesome Show! [meredith ] Re: Awesome Show! ["Ron Rosen" ] Exact Link to In Good Company CD ["Ron Rosen" ] RE: Awesome Show! ["Wood, Deirdre" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 04:36:34 -0700 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Awesome Show! I attended the In Good Company show at the John Anson Ford Amphitheater in Hollywood last night, and I'm so glad I did! The Ford is an outdoor amphitheater in the hills across from the Hollywood Bowl. It's very intimate - the last row can't be more than 120 feet from the stage. Before the show I happened to meet a man named Garth Bacon who is doing a documentary about celebrities dealing with differnt levels of fame - including Camryn Manheim, Henry Winkler, and Susan Werner. Go to this link: http://monsterdanceproductions.com/fame.html I gave him my card and told him to tell Susan that I was there. Later, I saw him in the audience and he said that Susan was happy to know I was there, "He's one of my biggest fans," she said. Before the show there was a red carpet with various soap opera stars. Surprisingly young-looking Fran Dresher showed up - maybe because one of the performers wrote the theme song for the Nanny. The show opened with the Johnny Rodgers band. Johnny plays piano and sings jazz-influenced cabaret. Very good songs and Rodgers has a really neat voice. I would definitely like to hear one of his CDs. After Rodgers, Lee Lessack came out. He's a fine cabaret singer who put this show together. It was mostly duets of Lee with other people, and a few solo performances by Lee or one of the others. Nita Whitaker did a wonderful duet with Lee on Last Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Brian Lane Green, a close friend of Lee, sang a great duet of Open Arms. There was one modern dance duet to a recording of Lee and Susan Egan singing The Look of Love. There were many other great duets before intermission. The second half of the show began with Grammy-winning Ann Hampton Callaway doing Blues in the Night as a solo. Callaway is very funny, "I'm 5 foot 10 and worth the climb." She is so soulful and bluesy - she just blew me and the rest of the audience away. Just great. Definitely check this New York-based singer out. With her sense of humor I thought she could do amazing things if teamed up with Susan Werner. Callaway and Lessack did a great duet called Bring Back Romance, with Callaway ad libbing humorous lines at the end - al a Susan. Then David Burnham, who took the night off from his role in Light in the Piazza on Broadway, sang a duet with Lee of the Everly Brothers' Let it be Me. It was so slow and soulful that it brought me to tears. For the next song, Lee sang Blue Guitar (yes, Susan's song) as a solo. About half-way through Susan came out looking just wonderful - kind of like a young Lauren Becall, I'd say - in black pants and a vest-like top with satin lapels. She finished Blue Guitar as a duet with Lee. Then they brought out Susan's Jenkins guitar. This would make her the only performer in the show to play an instrument other than bandleader Johnny Rodgers. She gave a brief introduction about being a cross between the Indigo Girls and Marlene Deitrich and, fronting a 4-piece band, did a slow bluesy version of Wouldn't It Be Loverly that captured the audience. Susan was really rocking out with her guitar and this band behind her. Then Susan and Lee did a soulful duet of Amanda McBroom's The Rose (which you know as a Bette Midler song) which spoke to me as it's a song of hope about those who are aftraid to love. A few more duets followed including Lee Lessack singing For Good with Stephen Schwartz, who wrote the music for the Broadway hit musical Wicked. Since Michael Feinsten, who does the duet with Lessack on the album, was not available, Lessack sang solo on Susan's May I Suggest accompanied by a hand-signing actor, Jon Maher. The show closed with all the performers on stage singing a new Brian Lane Green song written especially for this project called In Good Company. This was one fantastic show, and it was just marvelous that Susan had such a featured spot in it. No other artist had a block of three straight songs - and then the last duet of the evening was one she wrote. After the show I found myself downstairs buying a CD of the event, and then I happened to find Susan walking down the stairway. I told her how great it was to see her in a show like this and how she blew the audience away. She gave her usual modest response - shifting the subject to how great it was to be able to front a band. Susan and I had a great chat. She noted that something was different about me, and I told her about some wonderful things I'd been experiencing lately. She was very caring. I told her how she's been such an important part of my life. She told me that I was important to her because I've stayed with her through all her growth as an artist, and I'd been there for important events in her career like her Nashville debut at the Bluebird and her Cinegrill premier. Susan took my hand and had me walk her down the stairs to another area saying, "Just stay with me." After we arrived there, we chatted a bit more. In reference to the documentary that Garth Bacon is filming, she said she thought she had the perfect amount of fame - she gets to do things like tonight, but no one knows her in the grocery store. I told her that I loved her and said goodnight. What a good night! Look for the CD In Good Company at www.LMLmusic.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:56:28 EDT From: PBacoustic@aol.com Subject: Re: Awesome Show! Very cool, Ron... Are CD's of this commercially available? What a cool thing for Susan to be a part of.... Any pictures available? Paul *************** "Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool? " -- G. Spann ********************** HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:07:55 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Awesome Show! Hi, > I attended the In Good Company show at the John Anson Ford Amphitheater > in Hollywood last night, and I'm so glad I did! Thanks so much for your report, Ron!! It sounds like a wonderful night. I am so happy for Susan that she got to participate in a huge event like this. > Before the show I happened to meet a man named Garth Bacon who is doing > a documentary about celebrities dealing with differnt levels of fame - > including Camryn Manheim, Henry Winkler, and Susan Werner. Go to this > link: http://monsterdanceproductions.com/fame.html Whoa!! I had no idea about this. That's amazing. At the site click on Susan's picture to see a little clip of her interview from the film. I'm looking forward to Falcon Ridge for a host of reasons, but top of the list is that I get to see Susan again. It's been way too long, dammit. - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:55:33 -0700 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Re: Awesome Show! > Very cool, Ron... Are CD's of this commercially available? What a > cool > thing for Susan to be a part of.... Any pictures available? Yes, the CD is available at www.lmlmusic.com I didn't take any photos, but there may be photos on the LMLmusic website at some point. Who knows, there might be a DVD in the works. There was a boom camera working pretty hard all night long. HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:25:13 -0700 From: "Ron Rosen" Subject: Exact Link to In Good Company CD http://www.lmlmusic.com/product.php?id=LML-CD-186 HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:57:42 -0700 From: "Wood, Deirdre" Subject: RE: Awesome Show! It truly was an amazing concert. The selection of songs was compelling. I was truly impressed by the arrangements by Johnny Rodgers. His band is excellent, particularly the percussionist. Ron's point about Ann Hampton Callaway reminds me of an interview with Susan that I read not long after ICBN was released. The interviewer mentioned that he could hear Callaway singing some of those songs. Susan was impeccable. I loved the arrangement and interpretation of "Wouldn't It Be Loverly." I was sitting with a family friend who was a studio musician for "My Fair Lady." His comment was that "Alan (Jay Lerner) would have really liked this." - -----Original Message----- From: Ron Rosen To: Believers@smoe.org Cc: dfk@capgroup.com; Sanford Rosen; Louise Byer; David Rahall; BornALittleLate@aol.com Sent: 07/11/2005 04:36 AM Subject: Awesome Show! I attended the In Good Company show at the John Anson Ford Amphitheater in Hollywood last night, and I'm so glad I did! The Ford is an outdoor amphitheater in the hills across from the Hollywood Bowl. It's very intimate - the last row can't be more than 120 feet from the stage. Before the show I happened to meet a man named Garth Bacon who is doing a documentary about celebrities dealing with differnt levels of fame - including Camryn Manheim, Henry Winkler, and Susan Werner. Go to this link: http://monsterdanceproductions.com/fame.html I gave him my card and told him to tell Susan that I was there. Later, I saw him in the audience and he said that Susan was happy to know I was there, "He's one of my biggest fans," she said. Before the show there was a red carpet with various soap opera stars. Surprisingly young-looking Fran Dresher showed up - maybe because one of the performers wrote the theme song for the Nanny. The show opened with the Johnny Rodgers band. Johnny plays piano and sings jazz-influenced cabaret. Very good songs and Rodgers has a really neat voice. I would definitely like to hear one of his CDs. After Rodgers, Lee Lessack came out. He's a fine cabaret singer who put this show together. It was mostly duets of Lee with other people, and a few solo performances by Lee or one of the others. Nita Whitaker did a wonderful duet with Lee on Last Time Ever I Saw Your Face. Brian Lane Green, a close friend of Lee, sang a great duet of Open Arms. There was one modern dance duet to a recording of Lee and Susan Egan singing The Look of Love. There were many other great duets before intermission. The second half of the show began with Grammy-winning Ann Hampton Callaway doing Blues in the Night as a solo. Callaway is very funny, "I'm 5 foot 10 and worth the climb." She is so soulful and bluesy - she just blew me and the rest of the audience away. Just great. Definitely check this New York-based singer out. With her sense of humor I thought she could do amazing things if teamed up with Susan Werner. Callaway and Lessack did a great duet called Bring Back Romance, with Callaway ad libbing humorous lines at the end - al a Susan. Then David Burnham, who took the night off from his role in Light in the Piazza on Broadway, sang a duet with Lee of the Everly Brothers' Let it be Me. It was so slow and soulful that it brought me to tears. For the next song, Lee sang Blue Guitar (yes, Susan's song) as a solo. About half-way through Susan came out looking just wonderful - kind of like a young Lauren Becall, I'd say - in black pants and a vest-like top with satin lapels. She finished Blue Guitar as a duet with Lee. Then they brought out Susan's Jenkins guitar. This would make her the only performer in the show to play an instrument other than bandleader Johnny Rodgers. She gave a brief introduction about being a cross between the Indigo Girls and Marlene Deitrich and, fronting a 4-piece band, did a slow bluesy version of Wouldn't It Be Loverly that captured the audience. Susan was really rocking out with her guitar and this band behind her. Then Susan and Lee did a soulful duet of Amanda McBroom's The Rose (which you know as a Bette Midler song) which spoke to me as it's a song of hope about those who are aftraid to love. A few more duets followed including Lee Lessack singing For Good with Stephen Schwartz, who wrote the music for the Broadway hit musical Wicked. Since Michael Feinsten, who does the duet with Lessack on the album, was not available, Lessack sang solo on Susan's May I Suggest accompanied by a hand-signing actor, Jon Maher. The show closed with all the performers on stage singing a new Brian Lane Green song written especially for this project called In Good Company. This was one fantastic show, and it was just marvelous that Susan had such a featured spot in it. No other artist had a block of three straight songs - and then the last duet of the evening was one she wrote. After the show I found myself downstairs buying a CD of the event, and then I happened to find Susan walking down the stairway. I told her how great it was to see her in a show like this and how she blew the audience away. She gave her usual modest response - shifting the subject to how great it was to be able to front a band. Susan and I had a great chat. She noted that something was different about me, and I told her about some wonderful things I'd been experiencing lately. She was very caring. I told her how she's been such an important part of my life. She told me that I was important to her because I've stayed with her through all her growth as an artist, and I'd been there for important events in her career like her Nashville debut at the Bluebird and her Cinegrill premier. Susan took my hand and had me walk her down the stairs to another area saying, "Just stay with me." After we arrived there, we chatted a bit more. In reference to the documentary that Garth Bacon is filming, she said she thought she had the perfect amount of fame - she gets to do things like tonight, but no one knows her in the grocery store. I told her that I loved her and said goodnight. What a good night! Look for the CD In Good Company at www.LMLmusic.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V9 #59 ****************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message