Everything Was Possible

(tt)  Sheldon sent me to City Centre tonight to see a great concert created by two Broadway veterans who were the golden couple in the late sixties/early seventies then parted ways and did not see each other for 30 years.  Victoria Mallory and Kurt Peterson.

This was them then

And this is them today. That's Ted Chapin who wrote the "Follies" book, "Everything Was Possible"

They met in drama school and after competeing for success for a couple of years finally made it in the  1968 Lincoln Centre of "West Side Story"

This was the exact photo they sang "Tonight" against.  When the show began I thought perhaps we were to be bombarded with "And then we did this.."  Well it sort of was but the script and the disarming performances created an atmosphere of such warmth and tenderness that we were bathed in nostalgia and wanted to be.
They paid tribute to all their major Broadway work including "Dear World"  Miss Lansbury was in the audience. Mr Peterson's rendition of "Kiss Her Now" was totally sublime

 and Follies. This was the Boris Aronson set model for "Loveland" whcih was a backdrop to "Too Many Mornings"

That's Kurt in the sailor suit and Harvey Evans as the sergeant.

 Mr Evans was in the audience

And I said, "Hello", to him before the show

Miss Mallory played Young Heidi and sang "One More Kiss" to a photo of her ghost self. Her finest work  tonight was "I Remember Sky" from Evening Primrose" which she sang at  a benefit Sondheim concert on the set of "Night Music" in 1974.

Mr Hal Prince was in the audience
This was a really special concert and Mr Peterson especially found the reception extremely moving

My photo of the curtain call was moving too. I'll get a decent one soon