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Ilene reid
Happenings
Rebecca Luker
Not Funny
"It's Funny. In the song, by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid, Luker twists her image as a "spoonful of saccharine" but also punctures it. The gist is that lower-voiced belters get all the laugh lines, possibly because it's so "hard to land a joke up here" - in the soprano stratosphere." -NY Times
KELLI O'HARA
Not Funny
"but one of the highlights of the night was surely Ohara's "Not Funny", dedicated to her late friend Rebecca Luker, written by Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid. O'hara's natural humor came out in the song. She had the audience wracked with laughter with the song, opining that songs written for sopranos are not funny." -Broadway World
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