Bridging the gap between romanticism and popular music, between art song and cabaret, between opera and musical theatre, Richard Cray, baritone, and Cody Gillette, pianist, provide audiences with songs that make you stop, think and wonder, as well as delight and entertain.

Whether performing their own interpretation of a well-known American songbook standard such as "Climb Every Mountain" or "on a Clear Day", or an operetta selection such as "One Alone", a Neapolitan favorite such as "Come Back to Sorrento", or an intimate musical theatre number such as "Losing My Mind" or "Not While I'm Around", Richard Cray, accompanied by Cody Gillette, delivers powerful messages needed all the more in today's climate of fear and superficiality. You might encounter a psychological, imagery-based tour-de-force such as "The Windmills of Your Mind" or perhaps "You Must Believe in Spring". Or you might prefer to tune in to just pure verbal punning and lyrical gymnastics of a "They All Laughed" or "Tchaikovsky (and Other Russians)", or a "It's De-Lovely", or "You're the Top"--with optional stanzas by the king of lyrics himself, Cole Porter.

But only a singer as "lovely" and heart-warming as Richard, with the acting skills demonstrated only by the "top" performers on today's theatre stages can sustain the mood and inner emotional state required to communicate a complex song so effortlessly, with such technical mastery. Few singers today can deliver a song so honestly, with such vocal ease, yet convincing stage presence, as does Richard Cray. It has been said that Richard "sings from within the song"--and, one should also say, from within our minds and hearts. We feel him singing directly to us, each and every one of us as living, breathing, very human beings.

With each and every song, whether it be about leaving a loved one, such as "Partiró", or about that loved one staying in our hearts with us forever, such as "For Always", we are drawn into each new miniature world as it is brought to life before our very eyes and ears. Whether it be a dramatic scene from the world of stage, a song of plaintive wondering about the "meaning of it all" such as "Lost in the Stars" or a film theme such as "Alfie", or just pure fancy about the lightness of being, about nothing being impossible, such as "Pure Imagination" or "The Candy Man", Richard and Cody take their listeners on a free-for-all flight of feeling. From the catharsis of identifying with a stage character going through dark despair, yet new-found hope, such as "Lonely Town" or "You'll Never Walk Alone", to floating on air like a Fred Astaire with classic 30's and 40's dance tunes full of gentle Latin rhythms like "Begin the Beguine" or "Speak Low", to songs of strength and defiance such as "Old Man River", "The Impossible Dream", or "The Prayer", Richard sings from his heart to our hearts with every breath, every phrase, every gesture.

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