![]() She starts by recalling that she was four when she knew she had to be a musician and importuned her parents for a guitar. Etheridge gives the impression that she leaves nothing out, no matter how negatively it might reflect on her. What is most indelible about the musical autobiography is the absolute honesty with which it’s told. What Etheridge offers during the two-and-a-half hours, as grittily and silkily directed by Amy Tinkham, is her life story, co-written with wife Linda Wallem Etheridge. This goes for spectators – this reviewer among them – familiar with some of her material but hasn’t been a diehard advocate. It’s something more and perhaps something even more to be cherished. They’ve supported her before, and she gives them every reason to be thrilled again, Broadway or no Broadway.īut, as it happens, and what may come as a surprise for the Etheridge devoted, this appearance is not only the concert it appears at first to be. As expected, those are the crowds she’ll immediately attract – and please for their money’s worth and more. As a result, she has attracted a large lesbian audience. Undoubtedly, she had to take a while to decide which 15 songs of hers to include as well as “On Broadway” and “Piece of My Heart.” She may be the best Janis Joplin impersonator there is.Īs anyone familiar with Etheridge knows, she’s gay. And which she does deliver in her gutsy voice while playing with expert confidence several guitars, one piano (she reports that she taught herself to play the funky instrument), and drums. Which is pretty much expected by those who’ve sworn by her, many for at least the last 35 years. The immediate impression is that Etheridge is at that Broadway pinnacle to give the audience the Etheridge concert of their life and hers. She’s wearing a rhinestone-encrusted outfit, for which costumer Andrea Lauer supplies various eye-popping jackets. When the singer-songwriter – born – arrives, she enters a set that Bruce Rodgers has given the look of a glittering concert stage. Not necessarily for the obvious reason(s) but for one that may surprise her longtime and vociferous followers. ![]() ![]() And does she! She’s going to last long there. Oh, no? Etheridge gives the impression she includes the hot number because, a fan of Broadway musicals since childhood, she’s ready to disprove the tune’s sentiment. ![]() It contains the lyric, “They say that I won’t last too long on Broadway.” It’s “On Broadway,” which was top 40 charted by the Drifters and written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber. Towards the first-act end of Melissa Etheridge: My Window, the woman whom Island Records founder Chris Blackwell called the “new face of rock ‘n’ roll” in 1988 reprises one of only two songs she didn’t write. Melissa Etheridge in Melissa Etheridge: My Window. ![]()
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