Ms. Keane is formerly of the troupe Fascinating Aida. If you don't know who they are it's worth checking them out on YouTube - splendid musicians and very witty songsmiths.
This show was just Ms. Keane and a pianist (though she played herself for a few of the songs) and absolutely splendid it was too. The crowd certainly skewed older and you can see why, but that didn't make the brilliant songs and her voice any less engaging or relevant.
There was a theme running through the whole show - love and ageing. I'm familiar with at least one of them. Lots of pertinent, sometimes harsh, observations about life, loss, dating and ageing mixed in with lashings of innuendo and occasional outright smut, wrapped up in a true Noel Coward music-hall style, but all really coming back to love.
Pertinent and emotional. Her penultimate song, "Love Late" was introduced with her tale of finding love when she had accepted finally it was never going to happen - when she was 47 in 1999. Hope for me yet then.
Excellent entertainment and a thoroughly enjoyable change of pace and class.
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