“...this rock concert spliced with memoir has gained a striking intimacy, as if Etheridge had shrunk an arena to fit in the palm of her hand.”
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“Fans will nonetheless enjoy hearing Etheridge's story from her own lips, and when she slows down and lets us — and herself — live in a moment and feel a feeling for a little while, ’My Window’ is completely riveting.”
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“Etheridge’s an all-out performer, and just as she says onstage, really does seem to enjoy getting close to her audience.”
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“ ‘Melissa Etheridge: My Window’ is a performance built as much on candor as it is on musical talent, and until the big, rushed moment towards the end, Etheridge succeeds on both counts. One suspects its just too soon to deal with the latest tragedy, and Etheridge, her co-writer and her director just haven’t yet found a way to turn this ultimate heartache into art.”
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“It’s most touching and thoroughly entertaining.”
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“The bottom line is that Etheridge is a superstar who on this Broadway stage gives her audience the genuine gift of spending two-and-half hours with her up close, as if it were the old days and she were playing Girl Bar in LA in the ‘90s or the Cubbyhole in the aughts. It’s a brave and unusually intimate offering, worthy of applause.”
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“...’My Window’ is a straightforward artist’s journey of self-expression and survival, lovingly ladled to a fan-filled crowd in itself worth watching.”
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“Why is this night with Melissa Etheridge different from all other singing-celebrity confessional nights on Broadway? The difference isn’t in the story, really. It’s the storyteller...A virtue of ‘Melissa Etheridge: My Window’ is the degree to which the drama contains the story of a truly self-made artist.”
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