RUFUS AT CARNEGIE HALL.(The Talk of the Town)(Rufus Wainwright)(Concert review)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 26-JUN-06

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Not every single New Yorker was focussed on the Rufus Wainwright concert last Wednesday; a cabdriver from Cote d'Ivoire, who was taking one concertgoer to Carnegie Hall, was listening to a tape of a Mandinka-speaking Muslim preacher, which a friend back home in Abidjan had sent him. But certainly in a particular crowd, one that has a sizable membership in this city--Gay Men and the Women Who Love Them--people had been buzzing about this concert for two months. Rufus Wainwright was going to--can you believe this?--re-create the famous, and famously fabulous, concert that Judy Garland gave at Carnegie Hall on April 23, 1961. That's right: fabulous. Get the record. Then we'll talk. Wainwright's concert sold out immediately, so a second was added, the following night--that sold out immediately, too. E-mails...

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