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Award-winning husband and
wife cabaret duo ERIC COMSTOCK & BARBARA FASANO have dazzled audiences
with their wit and sophistication. Their latest show, THIS
THING CALLED LOVE, will play the legendary Oak Room at NYC's Algonquin Hotel February 9th through March 6th, 2010.
Special thanks to Susan Schulman at
Schulman Publicity for her assistance in arranging this interview.
So what’s the show about?
BARBARA: The show is called THIS THING CALLED LOVE. We don’t
guarantee we have any answers about the issues of love. But we have lots of
questions. We’re hoping that together with the audience and the wonderful
songwriters, we can figure out a few things. The whole idea is “this thing”
called love. You spend your whole life searching for it and you still don’t know
what is it, what am I supposed to do with it…it’s the grand mother lode
question. It tells us so much about who we are. The way we want to be loved
tells so much about who we are. So we’re try to put together an evening that
covers every possible angle to do with “this thing called love.”
ERIC: Sounds to me like there’ll be no room for songs! But
we’ll try.
Is this any one song in the show that
you feel best personifies your own love story?
BARBARA: I think they all do. Subconsciously, we end up
picking material that speaks to us because they say something about what we
experienced. I think there’s going to be a little bit of us in every song.
Will you be taking this show on the road
or maybe recording it?
ERIC: There’s a very good chance that we’ll taking it to the
Royalty Room in Palm Beach this summer. And there are plans to record this show.
Any other CDs in the works?
ERIC: Barbara has the most recent one in the family --
“Written in the Stars,” her Arlen CD that won all the awards. I have a new CD
that will be out this year called “Bitter Sweet.” There’s a duet with Barbara of
“Two For The Road,” a song we’ll also be doing in the show.
I’m a huge Cole Porter fan. Just from
the title of the show, I’m assuming both of you are as well…
BARBARA: Anyone with taste is. You can’t do a show about love
without Cole Porter. One of the songs we’ve selected is “In the Still Of The
Night.” When we were rehearsing, I said this song could be the entire show. We
could hand out the lyrics to this song, ask people to think about it, and say
“let’s go eat.”
ERIC: I think he gets misunderstood by the people who just
like to hear the witty patter songs. Which are, of course, incomparably great.
But his soul…
BARBARA: He is economical in his passion. Just think of the
title of this show. “What is THIS THING CALLED LOVE?” Who else writes that? Not
“what is love,” “what can love be,” but “WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE?”
Brilliant.
