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REGINA SPEKTOR

It’s just what happens when you take a phenomenal musician out of small Brooklyn venues and stick her center stage at Radio City Music Hall. Her vocals manage to fill up every inch of the theater, reaching out to her sold-out crowd– as well as her star-struck fans gazing down from the third mezzanine (I should know, I was one of them). At nine o’clock she began the show with her two cellists, drummer, viola player and violinist with a few songs off of her most recent album “Far.” Making sure to appease both new and old fans, Spektor weaved some of the more classic Regina ballads such as “Ode to Divorce,” into the show. Halfway through the almost two hour performance, Spektor’s mini-orchestra left her with nothing but an electric teal guitar, giving her and the crowd time to jam out to edgier songs such as “That Time” and “Bobbing for Apples.” Her witty, more provocative lyrics paired with just a guitar, keyboard, or her infamous chair-drum (for “Poor Little Rich Boy”) juxtaposed with the grandeur that is RCMH was really the most spectacular part. “I’m so grateful for tonight– it feels like a dream,” Spektor said. “Thank you for a dream New York,” she continued, before playing an encore. And before it was over, the Russian/Jewish New-Yorker brilliantly ended the night with an interpretation of a Country song, jumping around and singing about whores.

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