Last Night: Vagabond Opera at Amnesia
By Meredith Brody in Last Night

Vagabond Opera
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Amnesia

“Vagabond Opera performed two long and lively sets with a brief intermission, playing everything from the Turkish Menoush to creditable versions of Edith Piaf’s “Milord” and Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s “Alabama Song” from Mahagonny (more in the Hal Willner vein than the Doors). There wasn’t any overt reference to Josephine Baker, but who cares when you get songs in 11 — or was it 13? — different languages…”

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The second time around, during the last encore of the evening, Vagabond Opera played “Amnesia” in honor of Amnesite Saul… He enjoyed its witty lyrics so much…that Saul ended up onstage, pouring shots from a bottle into the upturned faces of the audience who opened their mouths to him like so many willing baby birds. (They scattered when he flung the bottle to the floor in a fine Gypsy frenzy, just before 2 a.m.)”

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