Yesterday I wrote about the musical Harmony, and that one of the people who will be starring in this NYC production is Sierra Boggess. As I noted, she's probably best-known for starring as 'Ariel' in the original Broadway production of The Little Mermaid, however I have the feeling that she's lived in England for a while (and still may, for all I know) because I've seen a lot of videos of her performing at the BBC Proms. In many of those videos, she does duets with a wonderful British actor Julian Ovenden. I first became aware of him on a Masterpiece Mystery series Foyles' War that's one of my favorite British series. (He played Foyles' son who wasn't a weekly regular, but a recurring character.) He also was a semi-regular in Downton Abbey and Bridgerton, and played Capt. Von Trapp in the live TV production (in England)of The Sound of Music, that was later shown here on PBS. And was in the PBS production of Show Boat, as the rakish gambler Gaylord Ravenal. I mention all this because when I was doing a search of videos for a friend to show her who Sierra Boggess was, I came across this one that I've embedded below. Apparently, she and Julian Ovenden just recorded an album of duets that they did apart during lockdown, "Together at a Distance." And despite their soaring voices, this is one of the funniest lockdown videos I’ve seen. Not because it makes a joke, because it’s actually as dry and unfunny and matter-of-fact as could be -- but that’s clearly intentional, with no reference to it being anything other than normal, which I find as hilarious as they most surely meant it. Basically commenting on “This is our life during COVID.” I’m sure not everyone will find it as funny as I do, because it’s bone dry, but…that's fine, because I think it’s a hoot. The wonderful singing of the lush romantic ballad, "Stranger in Paradise" from the musical Kismet is, for me, only a bonus. By the way, as easygoing as this all looks, I suspect it took a lot of rehearsal to get the timing just right so that everything looks nonchalant without even a hint of rushing.
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