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Viva Vivi Wrestling an Alligator Young War Zeppelin Beach Improv		Play: Divagation Reviewer: sandy w Reviewer Email: ginger_altoids@hotmail.com Rating: 2 Stars I would have made it 5 stars if all she had done was sing! She has a beautiful voice! The rest was a good concept but lacked the polish it needed to be carried out Play: divigation Reviewer: Sarah Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars Lara has a quirky, sometimes outright strange sense of humor, but then, how many singers are willing to let you figuritively get into their heads!? Her singing is pitch perfect and soul searing at times - a true tour de force! Play: divagation Reviewer: annika Reviewer Email: Rating: 2 Stars IT COULD HAVE BEEN 5 STARS- The sad thing about this cabaret performance is that it could have been great. The chanteuse has a wonderful voice, and when she does get around to singing (around 4 or 5 songs in the whole show)it's breath-taking. Most of the time though, her excellent back-up-combo is left doing nothing while she talks about wanting to do cabaret, tells some awful jokes, and goes through a really tedious routine about making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I appreciate the conceit of the show: that this is her "first night" doing caberet, and she's nervous, etc. I think it's a fine idea to deconstruct the cabaret lounge act - but, hey, she has a world of songs to choose from, and a beautiful voice to sing them with. Think outside the cabaret box, but stick to songs (and playing the clarinet, which she does pretty well.) A lot of us can make pb&j sandwiches, but would give 5 years of our lives to sing like that. Play: Divagation Reviewer: Kensek Reviewer Email: Rating: 3 Stars Three and ½ stars for “Divagation”. An average of the 5 stars for the singing and 2 stars for the humor. The humor often fell flat. Sometimes in a show, the humor is supposed to fall flat and still be funny. That wasn’t the case for a number of bits in this show. Flat was flat. And uninspired. It would have been great to hear Bruckmann stand up and sing for 60 minutes. I did walk out going, “I may never be a cabaret performer, but I can make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich! ” You may want to just pay attention during the singing and let your mind wander during the rest of the performance. Play: divignation Reviewer: Sally Reviewer Email: sbjalr@yahoo.com Rating: 3 Stars I don't know, Maybe she was having a bad night, maybe it was too little sleep and too many Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. and there were a few nice moments that were fun, a nice soprano voice, however - personally I can listen to soprano voices for about ten minutes before I turn on the internal Ipod, so it may be that this review is not fair, and I would probably have given her a better review if she hadn’t done Sondheim Julie Stein, and Rogers/Hammerstein as badly and flatly as she did, she just doesn't have the vocal muscle for it. Anyway, I know that it's hard being a soprano, I know they don't get the juicy parts in musicals that they would like, however that doesn't mean that someone should take it out on the world by putting up a piece of self indulgent crap like this at the fringe. Don’t get me wrong I’ve seen a lot worse at the fringe, but for some reason I just feel like I need to take this one personally. Play: divagation Reviewer: DJ Hamouris Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars After seeing this show twice, I would go again. Lara Bruckmann is a performing force to be reckoned with: for the last part of the show she had me in the palm of her hand. Her voice, her humor, her imagination, her humanity, her voice -- truly a unique experience, even for San Francisco and the Fringe. Do yourself a favor and see this one -- you'll never forget it and will leave the theater humming improbable tunes. Play: divagation Reviewer: Richard Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars Lara Bruckmann has a talent for shining a modern light through classic tunes and creating something electric. What do you expect from someone who when asked of favorite music will just as likely say Tchaikovsky as Mr. Bungle; Just as likely Joni Mitchell as Sleepytime Gorilla Museum? Whether singing jazz, classical or cabaret this mistress of song has magic in her voice. Her singing barely hides a smile and that smile can’t hide her genius and that genius knows the exact spot where art and fun commingle. She is fully capable of halting by voice a loosed Triceratops. She is the sound of a moistened finger dragged along the rim of a champagne flute at your brother’s wedding. She is the wail of the weasel going pop and the walrus going jazz. She is a world-renowned knock-knock poetess. She is the one, red hair in Santa Claus’ beard. She is the sound of Jupiter’s heartbeat. This should be fun. Play: divagation Reviewer: C. Levinson Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars This is a truly amazing tour de force for performer, Lara Bruchmann. I saw the show when it previewed in Oakland and was awed by her sometimes operatic/sometimes cabaret voice and comedic talents. She is a singer/actor worth following. I think we'll see a lot of her in the future. Play: divagation Reviewer: Reviewer Email: Rating: 5 Stars Equal-parts comedy, cabaret, & sick genius but safe for children. Accordions are cool, too. Play: divagnation (sp?) Reviewer: proper Reviewer Email: proper@gmail.com Rating: 5 Stars a fun mix. girlfriend is sexy, voice and music are right-on (right-on), humor is off-kilter/odd. a good opportunity to check out rising local talent in the small venues that fringe offers. combine with dinner in the tenderloin (shalimar, naanncurry, borobodur(?)) for a truly sf night.