The inspirational show that keeps on giving
The inspirational show that keeps on giving
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Joan Sutherland Theatre, December 12
★★★★
They dance through verse after verse, putting flesh on the despairing bones of his songs. Nancy, Suzanne and the rest could form an Old Testament litany of Leonard Cohen s loves. But they were never notches on a gun, rock n roll style. Each was adored for who she was; the warmth and light she brought to his life; a smile amid the futility, and the sensual corollary of his other obsession, theology.
Abby Dobson, Here with Yaron Hallis, made each word of Famous Blue Raincoat give up a little drop of blood.