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Lori Hoffman
“Atlantic City Weekly”

Nights on Broadway always presents a vocal showstopper, and this time it is the splendid rendition of "Being Alive" by Ms. Finley, Lori Mitchell-Gay and Charlie Brady, who take solo duties on the song, then combine for masterful harmonizing.
Brady gets the show off to an amusing start with the "Invocation and Instructions to the Audience" from Frogs, a 1974 Sondheim musical, based on a play by Aristophanes that was revived in 2004. Among other requests, Brady asks the audience not to cough or release gas. By my estimation these instructions were obeyed.
Lori Mitchell-Gay, a Philadelphia native who has established herself as a top performer in Atlantic City, is another holdover from last year. In the previous show she dazzled us with "Le Jazz Hot." This year her audience-pleasing showstopper is "Don Juan" from Smokey Joe's Café. She uses a long hot pink feather boa tossed about to express her distress about the financial status of her ex: "When you had money, I was your honey."