"On March 8, Tony and Olivier Award winning actor Gavin Creel entertained Scottsdale audiences with soaring vocals and humorous stories. This was the last show in this season's series of "Broadway @ Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts" concerts that feature a Broadway star and Seth Rudetsky as host and accompanist. The concerts provide an up-close way for Phoenix audiences to not just hear Tony winners and nominees sing songs from shows they've been in, but also get an in-depth and intimate look into the backstage stories and the reality of being a Broadway performer. While Creel's two-hour concert was a bit unfocused, it was full of comical stories, introspective thoughts, and searing performances from almost all of the Broadway and West End shows he's appeared in as well as several songs from his early days in New York.....He talked briefly about Bette Midler and how her public persona is nothing like the "golden" person she is. He then sang three songs associated with Midler, including two that she sang in the film Beaches, the hilarious "Otto Titsling" and the quiet Randy Newman ballad "I Think It's Going to Rain Today," which segued beautifully into a soaring "Before the Parade Passes By" that ended the concert on some sustained, soaring notes. For an encore, Creel gave the audience a few a capella lines from "It Only Takes a Moment" from Hello, Dolly! before sitting down at the piano and accompanying himself on a stunning version of "She Used to Be Mine" from Waitress that proved to be the emotional highlight of the evening." -Gil Benbrook, Talkin' Broadway (click here to read the complete review)
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