The cabaret featured Adam and his On the Town co-stars Tim Howar and Aaron Lazar.A delightfully intimate venue which had a standing area at the back by the bar which was packed, a small seated area in front of that and some great tables immediately in front of the stage which we luckily had prebooked. This is the closest I have ever been to an Adam Garcia performance.
Also in the audience at the table behind us was Adam's girlfriend Amelia Warner, a number of the On the Town cast including Caroline O'Connor and joining the party very late on Josefina Gabrielle who was Laurie in Oklahoma on Broadway when Aaraon was Curly.
The performance highlights included:
- An opening sequence where the three guys pretended to be a boyband and sang a jovial boyband spoof.
- Followed by the guys each taking a solo
- Tim sang a song from Jason Robert Brown's "Parade"
- Aaron sang a song from Barry Manilow's "Harmony"
- Adam confessed that he didn't really know many musicals and then mentioned "The Full Monty" in which his friend Ben Richards had played the lead in London. He then sang "Breeze off the River" from the show.
- After bantering with the audience about famous trios - the guys then went into Rat Pack sequence with Aaron singing "Fly Me To the Moon", Tim doing his famous Sammy Davis Jnr vocal impression and Adam singing "Me and My Shadow"
- We'd already spotted the switch into the tap shoes before the sequence started and Adam then proceeded to do an amazing tap solo starting really slowly and mechanically to tease the audience but then moving so fast his feet were just a blur. It was just brilliant to watch the master at work upclose. And it brought the house down.
- More banter with the audience where Adam did a really bad impression and everyone had to try and guess who it was to win back the price of their ticket. Caroline O'Connor (who was in the audience) called out Christopher Walken but was wrong.
- More famous trios when Sombreros were passed down to the stage and the guys went into Three Amigos mode getting the audience to join in with their song.
- Another series of solos followed with
- Aaron singing a blues version of Oasis song "Wonderwall"
- Tim being joined onstage by a member of his rock band El Camino to sing one of their own songs
- Adam singing "That's why God made the movies" from Paul Simon's 1980 Album One Trick Pony.
- A final number where they thanked everyone and sang a specially written version
of "London's West End it's a helluva town" where they made jokes about how great it was to do one show a week instead of eight and how they had to be nice to Cameron and Andrew as they were available for work from June onwards.
- The inevitable encore followed "Here Comes the Sun" where they sang accapella and kept losing the tune. Smiling and laughing they left the stage to rapturous applause.
Then it was all over and we drifted off into the almost deserted early morning streets happy.