Herb Alpert and Lani Hall. By Dale King Herb Alpert’s still got it. At age 80 — 81 as of March 31 — Herb Alpert, the legendary master of trumpet, has been a performer, composer, arranger, songwriter, singer, record producer, record executive, record company co-founder, painter and sculptor. But the audience that took up nearly every seat at the Mizner Park Amphitheater in … [Read more...]
Postcard From Broadway No. 2: ‘Finding Neverland’
Arrived in New York on Saturday, to gorgeous, crisp, sunny weather. But Sunday turned downright cold and rain is expected today. Sunday evening I saw Finding Neverland, the new musical based on the 2004 movie that starred Johnny Depp as J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, and Kate Winslet as the widow whose four kids inspired the timeless fable of the boy who never grew up. … [Read more...]
Tenor trio Forte wows Boca festival audience
By Dale King Not since Hurricanes Frances, Jeanne and Wilma has a trio of any kind hit Boca Raton with the impact of Forte, the power-voiced operatic tenors whose nearly two-hour show Saturday night wrapped up the eighth annual Festival of the Arts Boca on a high and mighty note. The men with stellar, soaring voices played to four standing ovations and performed two encores — … [Read more...]