After Midnight.

3-3-14 SHORT HILLS: We were predicted to get another big snowstorm, but it veered off to the south, hitting Philadelphia and Washington, and leaving us with a dusting of fluff. I’m OK with no new snow.

The red-wing blackbirds must have been reading the blog because they appeared at the feeders this morning. There were three or four showing only yellow epaulets but no red.

Saturday we saw After Midnight. It’s a rollicking jazz revue featuring “The Jazz at Lincoln Center All-Stars”, a sixteen-member band, heavy with brass, on the stage on a bandstand that rolls out almost into the audience at some points. The band is backed up by a troupe of young singers and dancers performing about two-dozen jazz standards, mostly by Duke Ellington and Harold Arlen. The trick is to recognize the song from the verse, before the song starts. The ‘guest star’, because shows need a big name headliner, is k. d. lang, who was excellent.


Brooks Atkinson Theatre-another old theatre with gilded moldings, chandeliers and murals hidden by lights, speakers and mikes.



Dancin '

Singin'