There is a warm family feeling that spreads through a room when a Sullivan performs — and Stacy Sullivan's lovely, one-night show at the Metropolitan Room was a case in point. The “family” aspect goes beyond the fact that the Sullivans are no homogenized tender Trapps but a multi-generational group of individual professional talents who happen to be related. Bring them together — particularly in an intimate club versus a recital hall — and you're in the middle of both a melodic, moving songfest and a love-in. On Halloween night the featured performer was Stacy Sullivan, following her appearance earlier in the evening at the Cabaret Convention. Bringing a fresh, relaxed, new sense of her own identity, plus a smooth, sweet singing style, Stacy offered a generous helping of standards — Berlin to Porter to Rodgers to Di Pasqua — with sparkling arrangements by James Followell at the piano, John Loehrke on bass and Lisa LeMay on keyboards. Joining her near the end of her show were several guests: brother Tim, with guitar; mother Elizabeth, singer and songwriter; and sister KT, joining Stacy in duet on Elizabeth's “As Long As We Sing.” That song title — considering the Sullivan grandchildren waiting in the wings — is a safe prediction..
Peter Haas
Cabaret Scenes
October 31, 2008
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