Andrea Axelrod returned to Don’t Tell Mama in 2019 with pianist/music director John M. Cook for the MAC Award-nominated After the Bawl – a singular (and often comic) look at the range of emotions, moods and resolutions that follow a broken heart.
Read the great reviews from Cabaret Scenes and BistroAwards from the June performances.
The show is a mix of the familiar and unfamiliar reflecting the full arc of recovery from heartache. Rather than just explore the familiar stages of grief, Axelrod sings her way through such phases as self-pity, self-abasement, revenge fantasies (with a revenge rhumba written for the occasion by lyricist Michael Colby, set by John M. Cook), restoration of self-esteem, relapses, sober reconsideration of the ex, joy in singlehood, emotional and physical loneliness, forgiveness and a resolution to try again.
The program features songs by, among others, Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer, John Bucchino, Johnny Burke/Jimmy van Heusen, Noel Coward, Cole Porter, Ralph Rainger/Leo Robin, Richard Rodgers (Lorenz Hart/Oscar Hammerstein), Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne/Carolyn Leigh, Jeanine Tesori/Dick Scanlan, Fats Waller, Victoria Wood and Alec Wilder.
Read the great reviews from Cabaret Scenes and BistroAwards from the June performances.
The show is a mix of the familiar and unfamiliar reflecting the full arc of recovery from heartache. Rather than just explore the familiar stages of grief, Axelrod sings her way through such phases as self-pity, self-abasement, revenge fantasies (with a revenge rhumba written for the occasion by lyricist Michael Colby, set by John M. Cook), restoration of self-esteem, relapses, sober reconsideration of the ex, joy in singlehood, emotional and physical loneliness, forgiveness and a resolution to try again.
The program features songs by, among others, Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer, John Bucchino, Johnny Burke/Jimmy van Heusen, Noel Coward, Cole Porter, Ralph Rainger/Leo Robin, Richard Rodgers (Lorenz Hart/Oscar Hammerstein), Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne/Carolyn Leigh, Jeanine Tesori/Dick Scanlan, Fats Waller, Victoria Wood and Alec Wilder.