A full house is always a promising sign, but what unfolded during “Broadway Reimagined: A Chamber Music Tribute” at the Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum was something rarer. The room was so completely captivated that time itself seemed to suspend. From the first notes to the final cadence, the audience was wholly with the performers, so engaged and emotionally tethered that one sensed a collective reluctance for the afternoon to end.
Curated with extraordinary care by Dr. Alexandria Le, the program moved between Broadway, opera and classical repertoire, revealing the shared emotional language that connects these traditions. Prokofiev’s “Montagues and Capulets” from “Romeo and Juliet” gave way to Bernstein’s “Tonight Quintet” from “West Side Story,” while Puccini’s “Quando m’en vo” from “La Bohème” sat beautifully alongside Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “You Must Love Me” from “Evita.” Joan Sobel’s performance of “You Must Love Me” was magnificent. > Read More
