Over the last month or so, we had the pleasure of going to performances by Kristen Chenoweth and Patti LuPone. The first we saw at Constitution Hall, the latter at Strathmore, a facility near us in Montgomery County, MD.

We were on the side at Constitution Hall and in the second row of the Orchestra at Strathmore, so one difference between our appreciation of the two performances was that it was if Patti LuPone was practically in our living room. That is, if we had a sunken living room and could seat a few thousand people.

Both performers are wonderful singers. I was lucky enough to see Chenoweth in Wicked as the good witch Glinda in which she was hilarious and LuPone in Gypsy twice as well as Sweeney Todd where in addition to singing she played the tuba (and triangle).Performing Versus Entertaining