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Family Jewels - The Making of Veronica Klaus

by Veronica Klaus

 

review by Robert Avila in SF Bay Guardian March 2005

 

In her new autobiographical show cocreated with director Jeffrey Hartgraves and produced by SteinBeck Presents, Veronica Klaus puts the confident, velvety voice for which she is deservedly known to the story of her exceptional life, from a turbulent Illinois boyhood to an acclaimed San Francisco-based career as a cabaret chanteuse. Her frank but witty narrative and engaging entre-nous style come leavened with a choice selection of songs (including original material), all of which testify to a passionate individual who learned to put the art in artifice and the invention in becoming – a transformation in which "reality is a technicality." Our attention can wane somewhat during the longish first act, but Hartgraves has created a nimble framework for Klaus's steadily engrossing story, supported by Topher Busenberg's homey bric-a-brac set and animated lighting design.

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