Holiday Show brings “yuletide bliss”

Another great review from The New York Post.

Television’s loss is our gain. Since his Emmy-winning turn on Frasier, David Hyde Pierce has brought his priceless comic presence to the theater (Monty Python’s Spamalot, Curtains), winning a Tony along the way. And now he has a nightclub act. Collaborating with Michael Feinstein for a holiday show, his wonderfully droll humor makes his partner seem more engaging than ever.

This is a holiday show less in fact – there are only a couple of Christmas songs – than in spirit. From its jaunty opening with Noel Coward’s ‘Together in Music’ (featuring an amusing medley of friendship songs, including ‘Ebony and Ivory’) to its gleeful piano duet on a fast version of Scott Joplin’s ‘Maple Leaf Rag,’ the evening is a nonstop, spirited delight.

Not that it doesn’t also have its quietly emotional moments. Feinstein brings his excellent voice and sensitive interpretive skills to such numbers as ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,’ ‘I Wanna Be Around’ and, most powerfully, ‘What Kind of Fool Am I?’ And Pierce brings a moving poignancy to ‘Your Face,’ which John Kander wrote decades ago for his romantic partner.

What really makes the evening special is its sense of fun. Pierce, bemoaning the lack of good Hanukkah songs (“Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel”?) finds a hilarious substitute in the Spamalot number ‘You Won’t Succeed on Broadway,’ about the need for Jews if you want to have a hit.

A duet on Cole Porter’s ‘You’re the Top’ features amusing updated lyrics, and the pair’s full-bore rendition of Les Brown’s ‘We Wish You Merriest’ will send you out of the room in a state of yuletide bliss.

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