Cafe Carlyle

Went to the Cafe Carlyle to hear Cristine Ebersole on Thursday.  She was a regular on SNL for one season; has been on TV soap operas, in movies, and has won Best Actress Tonys for '42nd Street' and 'Grey Gardens'.  I recently saw her at Birdland and fell in love.  Since Thursday the romance has cooled.  One drink at the bar with the show = $93, but no special moment in the performance.  I expect a moment in a live performance and she's had moments that have grabbed me and lifted me up.
However, the audience enjoyed the show and a woman sitting next to me remarked that I probably didn't like the  book.  There was this theme involving her three children, particularly her adopted teenage daughter.  Maybe that was my issue.  It reminded me of the time Rosemary Clooney,one of my favorites, sang at Westbury Music Fair shortly after 9/11.  She was fine, but before she sang 'Come in From The Rain' she prefaced it by saying that she always sang the song  for her grand-children.  Well I loved that song when I thought she was singing it to me but when your audience is your children and grand-children I'm less there.