The whole OST is just really great, with lots of melodies with their own personality.
Halo is one of those OSTs that usually ends up being more challenging for me, especially this track which is why I decided to try and tackle it. Clad in Adorno’s sparkly ’60s-era go-go outfits, the show’s hugely talented dancers are all about the wow factor.That's fantastic. The production numbers, recreating Price’s television appearances, are a real feast for the eyes. The show is also visually dazzling, thanks in no small part to David Gallo and Viveca Gariner’s clever, multi-level set, Raquel Adorno’s costumes and Edgar Godineaux’s dazzling choreography. As a young Price, Darian Peer is unstoppable in his delivery of “Lawdy Miss Clawdy.” Alexandria Reese, playing Erma Franklin (Aretha’s sister and a performer at Price’s nightclub), brings down the house belting out “Piece of my Heart.”
And when Aubyn sings, he is a force of nature, nowhere better than near the show s end, belting out an incomparable version of “Personality.”īacked by a seven-piece band, conducted by Shelton Becton, the songs in the show (all of the era, though not all of them written by Price) are performed with virtuosic bravado. Aubyn is also able to gracefully step from his role as the show’s narrator to an actor in the story, and back again. Maddoff and Price’s finely written script is perfectly complemented by Price’s powerhouse music and Sheldon Epps’ cleverly staged, well-paced production.Īs Price, Saint Aubyn is an actor of considerable charm and energy, winning over the audience from the start. His father dug ditches for a septic tank company his mother made money selling fish sandwiches. No one around Price had any reason to believe he could escape a world determined to keep him down, but he did. One of 11 children, Price was certainly up against it. It recounts Price’s life and career beginning with his childhood in the 1930s and ’40s in rural Louisiana, continuing with his rise in show business from young phenom (he was only 19 when he had his first hit record) and ending in the late 1960s, when Price, no longer the hot headliner but an established and respected entertainer, was still earning a good income from his craft. Jeffrey Madoff, based on extensive conversations with Price, with music and lyrics by Price. The musical (which had its world premiere last year at People’s Light in Malvern, Pennsylvania) features a book by B. Run-time: 2 hours, with one 15-minute intermission Where: Studebaker Theater, Fine Arts Building, 410 S.
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