REVIEW: "This Thing Called Love" NYTimes

Stephen Holden

New York Times

The excitement of Las Vegas and the sophistication of Manhattan merged on Tuesday evening at Café Carlyle, where Clint Holmes’s stirring new show, “This Thing Called Love,” saluted the songs of Cole Porter and Paul Simon. What do these composers have in common? Not much when you think about it. Mr. Simon’s knotty reflections with their undertone of whimsy and Porter’s besotted romanticism are poles apart.

But Mr. Holmes, imagining a dialogue between the two, created a dramatic suite in which their songs fruitfully played off one another. The closest they came to a meeting of sensibilities was early in the evening during back-to-back abridged versions of Mr. Simon’s “59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)” and Porter’s “It’s De-Lovely.”

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