A review of Jennifer Holliday's concert 'Here's To Life' at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
When Jennifer Holliday performed her signature song, “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” at thelast month, those in the audience at Winter Garden Theatre as well as those watching on Paramount+ were given a thunderous refresher on the meaning of “showstopper.”
With two marriages behind her, she said she finally understands the song. But rather than playing up the emotional desperation, she seemed to be singing to part of herself — the resilient Holliday reassuring the achingly vulnerable Holliday that she wasn’t going anywhere.On the verge of 61, in what she called her “third act,” she’s philosophical about her career, which she said has had more downs than ups.
Holliday has been open about her health ordeals, including multiple sclerosis, clinical depression and the weight loss surgery that transformed her appearance. Gratitude for being a survivor has eclipsed the fear of being left behind.Jeremy O. Harris threatens to pull ‘Slave Play’ from the Mark Taper Forum in solidarity with female playwrights noting the lack of representation.
Broadway, not exactly showering her with opportunities even after she demonstrated what she could do, was hardly a safe haven. And having flirted with the limelight as a recording artist, it’s not clear that the less lucrative grind of eight shows a week was still her dream — though ultimately it’s Broadway’s loss that Holliday has made only sporadic returns as a glittering replacement in long-running musicals.
The arrangements weren’t all fully worked out. Holliday joked to the masked audience that we’re all, herself included, getting back up to speed with live performance. She delivered “The Way He Makes Me Feel” in tribute to Barbra Streisand, whom she was told by “Dreamgirls” director Michael Bennett to study. She thanked audience members for their patience after offering her version of “Skylark,” but the fusion of story and song that Bennett tried to convey by way of Streisand stuck.
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