Dionne Warwick has a warning for her audience. I hope you came prepared for what Dionne has prepared, she offers, before singing a note. Youre going to be sitting there a long time.
Shes right: at 78, her live show lasts nearly two hours, without an interval. Initially, at least, youre gripped by the fear that however long it is, it might be entirely taken up with her opening monologue, which goes on and on like the Yangtze, while a pianist plays gentle chords beneath it. Eventually, however, the chords coalesce into an introductory song that appears to have been specially written for her, thanking her fans for buying her records and gently alluding to the turbulence of her more recent past: after years of financial mismanagement, she…
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