Reviews 2011
Reviews 2011
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written and directed by Michael Hughes
Random Hero, Toronto Fringe Festival,
Tarragon Theatre Extra Space, Toronto
July 8-17, 2011
Best of Fringe Uptown, Toronto Centre for the Arts, Toronto
July 21, 2011
Say hello to the next Michael Bublé. Michael Hughes’s show is a well-honed cabaret act with Hughes’s life story linking his tremendous performances of 15 famous show tunes. With much humour he tells how his parents tried to cure him of cross-dressing and his obsession with Judy Garland by sending him to the Clarke Institute. Only when he engineers a trip to New York City does he discover there are other people as mad about musicals as he is.
Hughes has a unique combination of charisma and complete lack of pretence. He makes each song, no matter how well known, into a personal expression of emotion. His passion makes all the old standards sound brand new.
©Christopher Hoile
Note: A version of this review appeared in NOW Magazine, July 14, 2011.
Photo: Michael Hughes. ©2011.
For tickets, visit www.fringetoronto.com.
2011-07-14
Mickey & Judy