holiday music

If the piano popster himself looks dashing in the snow, his songs sound it.

The playfulness peaked midway through Act II with the quirkiness of Burt Bacharach’s “Turkey Lurkey Time.” That song, full of fun choreography and the merging of retro fashions with formal tuxes, gave way to the heartwarming high of the night, a haunting performance of the beautiful “Ave Maria” sung by Alex Reuter.

The songstress revealed various realms of her range, both musical and stylistic, and, at one point, took the theater to church.