First of all, she looks fabulous! She made her entrance to a sold out audience tonight wearing a Bob Mackie gown that she claimed "Elizabeth didn't get in the divorce!" AN EVENING WITH DEBBIE REYNOLDS is a delightful 90 minutes spent with a true Hollywood legend and certainly one of the few remaining ones. The evening is filled with dirty jokes, stories from old Hollywood, and songs....a few too many songs, in my opinion. Ms Reynolds has never been known for having a terrific singing voice, it's always been a little thin and nothing very special and at the age of 80, it's less than it ever was. But Ms Reynolds certainly loves to sing and my only complaint about the evening was that I would have liked to have heard more talking and stories shared than less than perfect singing. She showed film clips from her most beloved movies, did a series of pretty terrific imitations of Hollywood legends like Jimmy Stewart and Bette Davis, and told tales about her unfortunate marriages to three deadbeats. She went up on her lyrics a few times and her pianist had to yell out a few lines to get her back on track, but she handled those moments with style. Her accompaniment was a piano, a bass, and the occasional canned orchestration. This was the perfect Event for me to attend the night after turning 42 because up against the age of my fellow audience members, I was a pure babe in the woods. Ms Reynolds tours this show 42 weeks of the year and it's clear that she has a fantastic time performing. She said more than once how shocked she is that people actually show up to see her. My favorite line of the night was after she sang her signature song TAMMY to close the evening. She said good night and there was an instant standing ovation. She bowed several times and finally said "Folks, I don't walk back and forth at this age...this is really the end. See ya" and made her exit. It was a pleasure spending an evening with her. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
Sounds like a delightful evening!
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