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Porsche & Friends Wow OW Crowd |
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by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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Porsche
photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert |
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After a season of hearing Porsche dazzle Fire Island with her versatile vocalism, I returned to the city from the Island and the first show I went to was "Porsche Live" at the OW Bar, on East 58th Street, on October 9. Chuck was the DJ, le tout Cherry Grove and Broadway's Michelle Dowdy ("Hairspray") were there, and amazing Porsche sang many of the summer favorites for us once again. Several guests joined her in impromptu duet.
Porsche offered "These Boots Are Made for Walking" as, in turn, Carol Channing, Eartha Kitt, 'Karen Walker' (Megan Mullaly), and Julie Andrews and continued in her Andrews voice for "My Favorite Things" and its parody, "The Pines Song," with bored Pines boys querying, "Isn't there anything else we can do?" Her Cher, Macy Gray, Diana Ross and famed Janis Joplin lent their voices to "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves."
Porsche opened with a zesty title song from "Fame," sang "History Repeating" in Shirley Bassey's earth mother bass, exposed hypocrisy in the "Harper Valley PTA," and gave us red-hot "Fever." Her excessively merry "Coalmine" featured back-up dancers Brad Loechle and Sean (Martina Sky).
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Porsche paid tribute to Judy Garland with "Meet Me in St. Louis" and "The Man That Got Away" and to Elvis Presley, in male voice, with "Can't Help Falling in Love."
Michelle Dowdy and Porsche happily blended voices in "Good Morning, Baltimore," from "Hairspray," and, from "Dreamgirls," "One Night Only." Billie Holiday 'sound stylist' Mel Greenwich took the stage for a 'dueling Billies' duet of "God Bless The Child" with Porsche and Mel did "Strange Fruit" as an encore. Faithful Chuck and Porsche collaborated on "Suddenly Seymour," from "Little Shop of Horrors," and Lazy Susan provided percussion, i.e. drumming on the floor, for the theme from the movie "Titanic" and "We Belong Together."
Porsche sang "At Last" to newcomer Jeff, from Pittsburgh, and evoked Amy Winehouse with "No Good" and "Rehab."
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