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Feb. 13th, 2007 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizalavelleLast night Jo and I went out to see Karen Le Blanc sing at the Gladstone Hotel. I quite enjoy that venue. It occurred to me that I was there for Valentines Day last year and at last nights show there were many references made to Valentines day even though it was a couple of days off. I’ve decided it counts. Hmm random tradition by coincidence.
I greatly overestimated how long it would take for me to arrive from the West End so I decided I’d just go on to HMV to kill some time and buy a Farscape DVD (I wanted the ‘A Human Reaction’ episode) but when I got there they just had 2 from season 3 and one from season 4 so I passed on that and headed back to the hotel.
The venue was packed, I’m glad it’s not too huge because Jo and I were able to stand near the back and see perfectly J Karen LeBlanc is fabulous! How smoking for years and years has not hurt her voice is beyond me but she still has this amazingly powerful beautiful voice. Lucky woman! It was a Cabaret night so she just performed two songs. A stunning cover of ‘At Last’ and a cover which I believe was called Can't Live Without You (she said Mary J. Blidge had sung it at the Grammy's last weekend, anyways it was marvellous as well. She was also funny and chatty with the audience. This of course amused me a lot because I was so young when I was seeing RENT and I was SO intimidated by Karen, now it’s fun to see a little bit of who this person is.
The Cabaret was hosted by Sharron Matthews who is just so talented and funny! I would absolutely go to another one of her events. She did a Dirty Dancing number which was very amusing, and had trivia. Is it a bad thing when that entire movie appears to be permanently installed in ones brain?
The other performer was Kyle Golemba who looked like a young Brad Pitt, so no complaints there ;) Again, very talented and fun.
Another night of seeing the fabulous talent in this city and wondering how these people are not all fabulously famous yet!
Oh we also ran into Tamara Podemski and Tricia Young (both Canadian RENT cast alumni) and chatted for a bit. It was nice to be able to say goodbye to Tamara before she heads out to LA. It’s a very bizarre feeling standing around waiting to talk to old RENT cast members. Falling back 9 years in time LOL
Today was a little rough. Drinking on a work night is never a good plan. But it’s always a fun plan at the time ;) I didn’t drink enough to be hungover but I felt a little spacy for the morning.
I greatly overestimated how long it would take for me to arrive from the West End so I decided I’d just go on to HMV to kill some time and buy a Farscape DVD (I wanted the ‘A Human Reaction’ episode) but when I got there they just had 2 from season 3 and one from season 4 so I passed on that and headed back to the hotel.
The venue was packed, I’m glad it’s not too huge because Jo and I were able to stand near the back and see perfectly J Karen LeBlanc is fabulous! How smoking for years and years has not hurt her voice is beyond me but she still has this amazingly powerful beautiful voice. Lucky woman! It was a Cabaret night so she just performed two songs. A stunning cover of ‘At Last’ and a cover which I believe was called Can't Live Without You (she said Mary J. Blidge had sung it at the Grammy's last weekend, anyways it was marvellous as well. She was also funny and chatty with the audience. This of course amused me a lot because I was so young when I was seeing RENT and I was SO intimidated by Karen, now it’s fun to see a little bit of who this person is.
The Cabaret was hosted by Sharron Matthews who is just so talented and funny! I would absolutely go to another one of her events. She did a Dirty Dancing number which was very amusing, and had trivia. Is it a bad thing when that entire movie appears to be permanently installed in ones brain?
The other performer was Kyle Golemba who looked like a young Brad Pitt, so no complaints there ;) Again, very talented and fun.
Another night of seeing the fabulous talent in this city and wondering how these people are not all fabulously famous yet!
Oh we also ran into Tamara Podemski and Tricia Young (both Canadian RENT cast alumni) and chatted for a bit. It was nice to be able to say goodbye to Tamara before she heads out to LA. It’s a very bizarre feeling standing around waiting to talk to old RENT cast members. Falling back 9 years in time LOL
Today was a little rough. Drinking on a work night is never a good plan. But it’s always a fun plan at the time ;) I didn’t drink enough to be hungover but I felt a little spacy for the morning.
