The young man, maybe in his early 30s, pretended not to stare at the striking woman who had just stepped into the elevator. She beckoned, teasingly, when he exited — “We’re coming with you” — making him blush like a schoolboy. The most recent — the embittered romantic Claire Zachanassian in “The Visit,” crafted by her frequent collaborators John Kander, Fred Ebb and Terrence McNally — earned Rivera a 10th Tony nomination in 2015. Rivera will nod to this history, as she has done in previous cabaret and concert performances, at Feinstein’s. “A couple of months ago, I was talking like this,” she said, lowering her already dusky sub-alto to a basso rasp.

Source: New York Times May 27, 2019 16:07 UTC