JILL COREY: THE
ULTIMATE DIVA!
 Ms.
Jill Corey on the cover of Life magazine.
One of the greatest artists of all time.
Mesmerizing, divine. The ultimate diva! A living legend in
her own right Her style, technique, stage presence, her
voice, the quality and beauty of her repertoire, her rapport
with the public and her unmatched individual originality and
improvisation set her apart from the rest of the sparkling
stars. She is “La Grande Dame” of entertainment par
excellence! Press quotes: "A performer of unusual depth and
insight…Jill Corey has made one of the most spectacular
comebacks in cabaret…Corey's return is more than welcome,
it's downright exciting."- Stephen Holden, the
New York Times.
"A
well-designed act based on the music of Harold Arlen…Corey
gives this composer a dramatic and intense delivery in which
she hits all the emotional stops." -Jose, Variety.
 "This
show represents a triumph for both Corey and Lassen and a
smashing return for Corey." -Bob Harrington, the New York
Post. "Strong set of pipes …powerful voice soared over
the stage…evening of fine singing, great material by a gem
of a singer who happily has returned to performing after a
much too long absence." - Steve Sanders of the
Hollywood Reporter. "Jill Corey is a singer who
stretches songs to their emotional breaking point…her voice
has darkened and ripened…like Garland, Miss Corey is
unstintingly dramatic …conveys a fundamental earthiness that
gives all the emotional energy a solid base.
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The mixture of torchiness with a
rootedness that has an almost gospel-like quality makes
her an ideal interpreter of a composer whose songs contain
such strong currents of the blues." -Stephen Holden, the
New York Times. "Singer Jill Corey's voice and
looks conjure up a range of famous images: Judy
Garland…Edith Piaf. When she sang I Wonder What Became
of Me interpolated into the center of One for My
Baby, the picture of a woman who has lost the girl she
used to be sprang brilliantly into focus. Wow! And
It's a New World ached with the hope that the new
world would stick around. Here is a fine singer,
indeed."-Don Nelsen, the New York Daily News. "At
Danny's Jill Corey reprises the first half of her October
Carnegie Hall concert in a show called A Celebration in
Song. Corey's glowing lower register gives her one of
the most beautiful voices around, and listening to her
sing a fervent His Eye Is on the Sparrow or a
deeply moving rendition of Sondheim's Stay With Me
from Into the Woods is an experience in sheer
musical pleasure. Corey's forte is the torch song, and
she's a singer who pulls out all the stops and then
some. But though there's always enough torch in a Corey
show to start a conflagration, A Celebration of Song
is a well-balanced show that covers a wide spectrum of
emotions. I was deeply impressed with many of the sweet
moments in this show as she sang about the joys of raising
a daughter, and was swept away by her eleventh-hour number
After Today, and by a medley of Janis Ian's
Stars with Sondheim's I'm Still Here. Corey
sings straight from her heart and from her life
experience. It gives her renditions a verity that no
amount of skill can duplicate - either you've been
through it or you haven't. Corey's skill and her artistry
are in her ability to share and express those feelings
through song. She sings about things which have affected
her deeply. When you join her in her Celebration of
Song, it is her life you are celebrating - the good
times and the bad - and when you leave, you'll know
something about Jill Corey."-Bob Harrington, from
Bistro Bits in Back Stage. “Ms. Corey - a
performer with great style, appeal, class and enough heart
for any ten current pop singers - has the simple ability,
and confidence, to sing directly and well. It's a lovely
voice layered with feeling, no tricks. Her only trick at
the Riverboat (where this meeting of Jill Corey
sympathizers continues through January 25th) is to make
eye contact across a moat of a dance floor. She flung
songs across the expanse-like preserves - a throbbing
Maybe This Time, a seductive Last Blues Song,
and a Yesterday that cried real tears."-Gerald
Nachman, the New York Times.
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