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Edith Piaf
“To begin with, Pat O'Scannell bears no discernible likeness whatever to Edith Piaf.
‘My physicality, my size, my ethnicity, everything about me is different,’ O'Scannell writes in her program notes for Camelot Theatre's "Spotlight on Edith Piaf," which opened Friday and runs through June 15.
“To begin with, Pat O'Scannell bears no discernible likeness whatever to Edith Piaf.
‘My physicality, my size, my ethnicity, everything about me is different,’ O'Scannell writes in her program notes for Camelot Theatre's "Spotlight on Edith Piaf," which opened Friday and runs through June 15.
Medford Mail Tribune Review by Bill Varble, Sunday June 8th 2014
Quotes:
“But when O'Scannell begins to sing a song made famous by the French chanteuse, something happens. It's as if some invisible emanation takes her over, and you feel the spirit that made Piaf an icon around the world and especially in her homeland. Actually feel it in the room.”
“Part of it is that O'Scannell is simply a highly accomplished singer with a lovely voice.”
“Beneath all that, O'Scannell gets so far inside these often haunting songs that she seems to be living them. This is not an impression of Piaf. This is a singer of power and subtlety channeling the spirit of another.”
“At the end of songs such as "Sous La Ciel De Paris," "La Vagabond" and "Le Roi a Fait Batter Tambour," there was often a micro-second of silence before the stunned audience came back from Paris with a blink, found itself in a theater in Oregon and burst into applause.”
“But O'Scannell can break your heart with a song such as "Les Trois Cloches," which those of a certain age may remember…”
“But there's no quibbling with the songs. O'Scannell's take on a song like "Hymne a l'Amour," which Piaf wrote after the death of the love of her life, the French boxer Marcel Cerdan, almost breaks your heart. Same with the moving ‘A Quoi Ca Sert l'Amour’."
Quotes:
“But when O'Scannell begins to sing a song made famous by the French chanteuse, something happens. It's as if some invisible emanation takes her over, and you feel the spirit that made Piaf an icon around the world and especially in her homeland. Actually feel it in the room.”
“Part of it is that O'Scannell is simply a highly accomplished singer with a lovely voice.”
“Beneath all that, O'Scannell gets so far inside these often haunting songs that she seems to be living them. This is not an impression of Piaf. This is a singer of power and subtlety channeling the spirit of another.”
“At the end of songs such as "Sous La Ciel De Paris," "La Vagabond" and "Le Roi a Fait Batter Tambour," there was often a micro-second of silence before the stunned audience came back from Paris with a blink, found itself in a theater in Oregon and burst into applause.”
“But O'Scannell can break your heart with a song such as "Les Trois Cloches," which those of a certain age may remember…”
“But there's no quibbling with the songs. O'Scannell's take on a song like "Hymne a l'Amour," which Piaf wrote after the death of the love of her life, the French boxer Marcel Cerdan, almost breaks your heart. Same with the moving ‘A Quoi Ca Sert l'Amour’."