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Sara Bareilles’ First Orchestral Concert at Hollywood Bowl Features Ravishing Treatments of Broadway Hits, Feminist Anthems and New Material: Concert Review
At the Hollywood Bowl, Sara Bareilles' first concert with an orchestra included songs from 'Waitress' and 'Into the Woods' and two striking new tunes.
The third example of Bareilles bringing Broadway to the Bowl, sort of, was her premiering a new song from the stage musical that she has in development as a followup to “Waitress.” She shared that she continues to be at work with the book writer Sarah Ruhl on a theatrical adaptation of the bestselling Meg Wolitzer novel “The Interestings,” and debuted a ballad from the work-in-progress, “Enough,” to be sung someday by one of the male characters in the ensemble piece. It was clear some of the night’s orchestral arrangements were bespoke especially for the occasion, as “Hands Off My Body” saw her marching off stage, followed by a minute-and-a-half or so of pure symphonic vamping before she appeared at a B-stage in the middle of the Bowl for an acoustic set, where she was joined by Cunningham, the Milk Carton Kids and members of her usual band. Through it all, Bareilles kept up a humility that ensured she kept pouring effusive praise on Wilkins, the orchestra, the crew, the setting, and her fellow singers and musicians, with a strong sense that she well remembers her days at the Hotel Café down the hill, however heady her slow, steady progression toward an EGOT might be.
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