Contact Camille at camillesavitz@gmail.com

The warm, ebullient cabaret singer Camille Cacciatore Savitz, played two Sunday matinee performances of her new show at the Reprise Room with the Paul Chamlin Trio (Tom Hubbard, bass and Scott Neuman, drums) with music director /arranger Paul Chamlin on piano.  Generous Camille welcomed her audience by providing each table with a cute little red tray in the shape of lips and filled with Hershey's chocolate kisses.

   Every song dealt with kisses and kissing.  Songs dating from Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom’s long-ago "Kiss Me Again" and Herbert and Buddy G. De Sylva's vintage "A Kiss in the Dark" to "Kiss the Girl" from the present-day The Little Mermaid by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman… every song you ever heard on the subject: "Besame Mucho", "Kiss of Fire", "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" to really obscure stuff  like "Botch-A-Me" and "A Penny a Kiss" and "Kissin' Bug Boogie".  You get the idea, but I bet you can't come up with one she didn't find and deliver.  It was great fun.

Jan Wallman, Cabaret Exchange

By sheer will to entertain plus a strong likeability factor and bubbling energy, Camille Cacciatore Savitz succeeds in winning over her audience.  Her theme show is a set list of songs about kisses (“Besame Mucho” with muchos enthusiasm and ending with “One Last Kiss”... you get the idea).  Comfortable on stage, strutting and smiling, accompanied by a band, she has fun and it’s truly contagious.  Her naturally cheery, chatty autobiographical patter pushes some nostalgia buttons as she covers dating in more innocent decades and romantic fantasies.  Without having a polished or rangy voice, Camille sells the songs and communicates.   Cannily directed by The Singing Experience’s teacher/founder Linda Amiel Burns, jolly Camille brings the audience into her memories, jogging theirs, comparing notes with them, rather than being lost in her own recollections.  Seen at The Reprise Room with a packed house, the show was packed with good songs and good spirits.

Rob Lester
Cabaret Scenes
April 20, 2008

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