Trivial Pursuits
Trivial Pursuits
With David Almeida
Musical Direction by Chris Leavy
Spotlight Cabaret
June 24, 2015
The Winter Park Playhouse, Winter Park, FL </strong>
Suave and confident, David Almeida took the stage in casual jeans and just -slightly-too-flashy-for-banking shirt and tie. He may not be the strongest voice on the WPPH cabaret cycle but he had the best material. From Monty Python’s “Look on the Bright Side of Life” to “Memories” rendered by imitations of all the great 20th century divas from Cher to Streisand he belted a lovable and winning show. He welded “The Mary Tyler Moore Theme” with the “Laverne and Shirley,” reminisced about Trivial Pursuit and David Cassidy and even sang the Doctor Demento hit “Junk Food Junkie.” Weird Al the Marx Brothers, West Side Story, it’s all there. My childhood, his childhood, the only thing missing was “The Prisoner” and “Laugh In”. Mr. Almeida is living proof cabarets don’t have to be all show tunes and serious sauce, they can be fun and frivolous. Maybe someone should do a Classic Rock Cabaret…
For more information on Cabaret at the Winter Park Playhouse, please visit http://www.winterparkplayhouse.org
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