Rufus Wainwright

RUFUS DOES JUDY AT CARNEGIE - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

This song-by-song re-creation of Judy Garland’s iconic 1961 Carnegie Hall performance, staged there by Rufus Wainwright in 2006, seems better-suited to a cabaret act. Wainwright tries valiantly, but his persona is too affected to do what Garland did with this material: all standards, but rearranged for maximum drama and sung by the troubled star […]

December 8th, 2007 - Posted in Album Reviews