Oh, The Places I’ve Been!
Oh, The Places I’ve Been!
Natalie Cordon
Musical Direction by Chris Leavy
January 12, 2017
Winter Park Playhouse, Winter Park FL </strong>
Looking for someone who’s been a few places? Natalie Cordone might be a good starting point. She first crossed my radar in ‘04; back then she was the simply named “Girl” in “Roar of the Greasepaint.” About seven years ago she took the bold step of leading the WPPH Spotlight cabaret series and put herself on stage with just a sparkly dress and a piano player. The series began with great trepidation but almost immediately acquired a track record of routine sell outs. Ms. Cordone returns; tonight she’s full of traveling stories and traveling songs.
Ms. Cordone covers the globe from “Girl from Ipanema” all the way back to London with Frederick Loewe’s “Street Where You Live.” There are plenty of stories; she got her butt pinched on the metro and she sang in an Italian piazza, and she has tackled the Louvre. Songs range from the funny and naughty “Everybody’s Girl” to the plaintive “Moon River” and right back to an urban love affair as “The Girl In 14G.” Behind her elegant black dress and over-the-top necklace we hear stalwart Chris Leavy and we look out on the decidedly un-romantic Orange Avenue. Outside is an avenue of broken dreams and missed parking spaces; indoors we jet across oceans. It’s the travelogue that makes you want to pack up and forget about miserable seating in coach and see the world.
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