The envy that I feel for those who will be there for this event tonight and tomorrow night … is really beyond words.
I actually kind of ACHE about it.
It’s a genius conception, first of all – what a ballsy idea – so RUFUS-ish of him!! I love the oh-so-shy (and, of course, ironic and snarky) “WORLD’S GREATEST ENTERTAINER” on the poster … hahahaha He’s so lovely. He really is. And if he pulls it off (which I imagine he is capable of) … what an incredible night it will be.
I hope they film it and … oh … next year it’s an HBO special or something like that.
I saw him perform on Valentine’s Day, 2002 at Town Hall here in NYC. Allison and I went. Someday I’ll write about the special-ness of that concert. If you ever get a chance to see him perform, I say: do it. He’s marvelous in person. The voice is just as good as it is on the albums (which obviously, in this day and age of lip synching and double/triple tracking of the voice is not always the case) – and he’s real old-school. An old-school crooner. Old-school except for his flowy patchwork bellbottom pants, of course.
He’s an amazing performer (even when he was a bit drunk, like he was the night I saw him) – and I am soooo jealous of those who will be there tonight that I kinda can’t even deal with it.
This is the album that made me fall in love with Judy Garland!! That swagger and voice…oh, I get goosebumps just thinking about it. Man, I just loved that voice!! The power of that performance is incredible considering by that time she was just starting the dark, but amazingly successful, stages of her life. I mean, gosh, she was three years out from her Hepatitis diagnosis…oh yeah, and the whole drug thing.
Even though I have not heard Rufus I sure he will do good by it, it would takes an incredible amount of chutzpah to attempt this feat if he couldn’t pull it off.
I did try to get tickets but it sold out almost immediately. Apparently they have released another block of tickets – but I called Carnegie Hall this morning and they said no more were available.
I just RUFUS in caps and thought for a minute you were talking about Rufus Sewell. Dang. Well, Rufus Wainwright is good, too, and I love his mom and aunt.
I would imagine just like the original show, a bunch of these tix are going to reserved for the “beautiful” people. With the shows selling the way they did, do you think he might do a third show? I mean, there’s still 17,18,19 (unless there’s another attraction scheduled).
I would say to try a ticket agent..but I know I wouldn’t want to take a second mortgage to go!
All I have going through my head now is….CLANG, CLANG, CLANG Goes the trolley….
I loooove Rufus Wainwright. I am so grateful to my old roommate for showing me him. How I ever listened to the iPod without him on it, I have no idea.
i am going to this tongiht!! omg!
this will be my sixth time seeing rufus. does that make me a groupie? i hope so.
Oh siobhan – you have to tell me everything!! I’m so jealous!
siobhan…u must write about the whole thing!!! I will live vicariously through u!!!