Review: An Evening With BETTE MIDLER starring Orla Mullan

Review: An Evening With BETTE MIDLER starring Orla Mullan

On tour – Playhouse Derry 17th and 18th November, Ballybofey Sunday 19th, Strabane 24th and Down Arts Centre on Saturday 25th November.

Orla Mullan and Bette Midler are one and the same, hard to know where one begins and the other ends. At the Island Arts Centre in Lisburn Thursday night a full house in the Studio were entranced by this local artist, actor, singer, and comedian who was the Devine Miss M for 75 minutes without a break and she had us laughing, crying, one minute clapping along the next in total silence. Called after the film star Bette Davis, our Bette was proud to show off her pretty legs and great big knockers! She asked us why we were there, and before we could think of a reply Miss M answered for us – ‘To celebrate me!’ And we did. We learned about this Jewish kid born in Hawaii who worked as chief chunker in a pineapple factory, ‘a buxom little bomb shell’. She talked and sang us through her career, the characters who travel with her, Sophie Tucker and her jokes about Ernie, Delores with her fish tail and the rest. Barry (Ryan Quinn) her musical director and pianist joined in the fun and was an important part of Midler’s act. But be sure, it’s Orla who is the diva here, she has studied Midler, she has her voice and intonation to a tee, all her mannerisms. No use of blond wig or sparkly dress, just a talented woman in her bare feet, dress and jacket who rejoiced in her chosen character and she can sell a song. The Rose, The Wind Beneath My Wings, From a Distance, what a night. On the way to the car park a lady, on her own, told me she cried when Orla sang The Rose and how a young girl beside her took her hand and said, ‘Isn’t it just beautiful’. It was.
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This show will take an already busy actor all round the place so make a point of catching her, I promise you won’t be disappointed.

Anne Hailes

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