{"id":357,"date":"2010-02-25T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.61\/~twisithe\/?p=357"},"modified":"2023-07-13T12:20:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:20:01","slug":"gabi-epsteins-chill-mix-takes-us-back-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twisitheatreblog.com\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Gabi Epstein&#8217;s Chill Mix Takes Us Back in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">My favourite thing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gabiepstein.com\/\">Gabi Epstein<\/a> as a performer is that she is continually reinventing her repertoire. She refuses to be pigeonholed as a \u201cmusical theatre singer\u201d or even as a \u201ccabaret artist,\u201d she is teeming with creative ideas and she will bravely tread into unchartered waters and will happily invite an audience along for the ride. This means that each Gabi Epstein experience is a truly unique one and <em>Gabi\u2019s High School Chill<\/em> Mix, a cabaret I attended recently at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breadandcircus.ca\/\">Bread and Circus<\/a>, was certainly no exception.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Epstein, the idea for this cabaret was hatched while she was touring across the United States on a Children\u2019s Theatre Tour, listening to her IPod for long periods of time. Each time that songs from her High School \u201cchill mix\u201d came up, she found herself becoming wistful for a time gone by that she had captured on CD nearly a decade ago. So, she decided to recreate this \u201cchill mix\u201d in a concert format so that she could bring this music from her past into the present and share it with an audience who may remember the late 90s fondly as well.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clad in a skirt she made in High School constructed out of Compact Discs and Cassette Tapes strung together with twist-ties, Epstein\u2019s Cabaret was inventive, nostalgic and characteristically hilarious straight from her entrance. She took us all back to 1995 with Alanis Morisette\u2019s ode to \u201cMary Jane\u201d and sang a beautiful rendition of Ben Harper\u2019s \u201cAnother Lonely Day\u201d which suited her voice with absolute loveliness. I am continually impressed with Epstein\u2019s ability to choose songs, often those sung by male artists, which burst so unexpectedly from her&nbsp;and that are given fresh arrangements that she is able to bring so beautifully to life. She gave a particularly emotional performance singing Lisa Loeb\u2019s \u201cStay\u201d and was equally as successful in her rapping aptitude for her encore of \u201cWaterfalls\u201d (TLC) which brought down the house and generated a rousing Sing-Along. <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Epstein was also joined onstage by a slew of her talented friends. Daniel Abrahamson played the piano for the evening, showing of some serious skill during Our Lady Peace\u2019s \u201c4am,\u201d Trevor Campbell played the guitar and they both joined Epstein on a gorgeous three part harmony arrangement of \u201cShe Talks to Angels\u201d (The Black Crowes). Abrahamson sang a poignant and beautiful \u201cHomeward\u201d by the Beatles, while Campbell played Hawksley Workman\u2019s \u201cYou, Me and the Weather,\u201d which is one of the most difficult songs ever written, to impressive effect. Raha accompanied Epstein in her rendition of the Red Hot Chilli Pepper\u2019s \u201cOther Side\u201d on the violin with incredible skill and dynamism. She was absolutely mesmerizing. She also accompanied Epstein and guest Michael Hughes in their performance of \u201cKissing You\u201d during which Epstein sang lower than Hughes and his falsetto was so incredibly out of control, I got goose bumps. Epstein also arranged a four part a cappella arrangement of Radiohead\u2019s \u201cKarma Police\u201d for herself, Trevor Campbell, Jennifer Walls and Rachel Fischer.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the benefits to the Cabaret craze that has been sweeping through Toronto for the past year is that it provides opportunities for all the city\u2019s young musical theatre future stars to sing in various genres and different pairings. This is an ideal occasion for giving prospective musical theatre producers and directors the ability to see how well these artists perform both separately and together. I would hope that these individuals are making the most of this unique opportunity and that each time these performer prove themselves to have star power and vocal prowess, a plethora of plans for musicals with Canadian casts are launched and swirl around&nbsp;in the minds of all the prospective producers in this city.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other highlights of the evening included Late 90s Trivia and Michael Hughes doing his best John Stamos impression while singing the opening bars of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d46sWCdmees\">Forever<\/a>.\u201d Truly,<em> Gabi\u2019s High School Chill Mix<\/em> was a night of nostalgia and frivolity that brilliantly captured a unique aspect of Epstein\u2019s vibrant personality. I urge all Cabaret artists to take a page from Gabi\u2019s book and to be brave and leap out of their comfort zones. It is certainly invigorating and inspiring to watch. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite thing about Gabi Epstein as a performer is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4671],"tags":[6834,6835,5289,5796,4791,4234,6838,5803,6836,6839,6840,3747,6837],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-alanis-morisette","tag-ben-harper","tag-bread-and-circus-theatre","tag-cabaret","tag-daniel-abrahamson","tag-gabi-epstein","tag-hawkesley-workman","tag-jennifer-walls","tag-lisa-loeb","tag-michael-hughes","tag-rachel-fischer","tag-toronto","tag-trevor-campbell"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gabi Epstein&#039;s Chill Mix Takes Us Back in Time - The Way I See It Theatre &amp; 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