Review
A public act of worship, a fabulous stunt in which a gay singer channeled the spirit of the ultimate gay icon: Rufus Wainwright’s song-by-song re-creation of Judy Garland’s famous April 1961 Carnegie Hall concert was all this and more. Onstage at the June 2006 event, this gawky pop shaman was transformed by a full orchestra and clothes by schmancy Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf. On the double-CD compiled from those concerts, Wainwright’s wavering, grainy, nasal-edged voice is nothing like Garland’s ripe alto, though he displays a similar showbiz flair: His campy humor matches Garland’s in pungency. This compendium of pop standards is as good an introduction to the great American songbook as any.
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