Cabaret Scenes Magazine writes:
November 10, 2011
You could almost call it a musical version of
Saturday Night Live. Sandy and Richard Riccardi’s Metropolitan Room show was a fun-filled
hour of lampoons, jabs and jibes on a host of topical subjects. With
mostly their own original songs, but with an occasional borrowed tune to
which the pair wrote parodies ranging from puckish to cynical to
contemptuous, they took sharp aim at, among other items, politicians, TV
evangelists, Broadway musical wannabes, sexual orientation, and the
Twitter explosion.
The music and material gave Sandy
Riccardi plenty of opportunity to establish her proficiency as a
versatile singer and actress. If anything, she so immersed herself in
the procession of characters she assumed, that the audience might not
have had time to appreciate the quality of her near-operatic voice. But
sharp-witted content was more the show’s objective than was a musical
recital.
The numbers included a spoof on some
of the current crop of Republicans jockeying for the Presidential
candidacy, a song revealing why some guys feel they need to drive a
truck, the source of “The Southern Girl’s Mating Call,” and a rollicking
ode to a woman’s “change of life.”
And, while I won’t give it away, one
of the show’s highlights was Sandy’s response to Sarah Palin’s remark of
a few years back that she was “speaking for all the hockey moms.”
Richard Riccardi (Sandy’s husband)
may have been sequestered behind the piano, but as her spouse, partner,
musical director and accompanist, he was a willing—and eminently
salutary—accomplice to the musical goings-on, much of which he composed
and/or co-authored. Together, Sandy and Richard Riccardi made for one
hell of a rib-tickling and satisfying cabaret night out.
Peter Leavy
Cabaret Scenes
November 10, 2011
An Evening With Sandy & Richard Riccardi [PG-35]
"Laughter is the best medicine, but Xanax is nice, too."
Sandy & Richard Riccardi have decided there are enough places in life to be self-indulgent, and that the cabaret stage isn't one of them! They are here to make you scream with laughter at their all-original, all-comedy musical show, describing their cracked and bush-whacked road to marital bliss and social consciousness.
Their unique juxtaposition of modern, techno-socio-relevant lyrics and tune-smithy jazz piano arrangements will charm your socks off. If that doesn't then the Justin Bieber references and the strip tease will.
Songs include:
Charming Gay Son
The Southern Girl's Mating Call
Twitter Me, My Love
The Marriage Tarantella
Mini-Cooper
Trophy Wife
Menopause
Let's Sleep Under The Stars
He Says, "Killer"
Speed Date (I've Got It All Planned Out)
I Wanna Be A Swing On Old Broadway
Adelaide's Health Care Lament
The Higher The Hair, The Closer To God!*
I've Got It Good And That's So Bad
But I'm The One Who's Happy
and their 1.5-million-hits-and-counting YOUTUBE sensation:
Don't Speak For Me, Sarah Palin
Show Directed and Designed By Paul Gilger
*"The Higher The Hair, the Closer To God!" written by Paul Gilger
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