KT and I just got back from seeing Lucy Lawless in concert at the Roxy in LA. I'll try to be all professional and journalisty tomorrow, I swear I will. But for tonight, let me just let my inner fangirl out to squee.
It's been bitterly cold here in LA, and when we first arrived, we joined the other fangirls outside waiting to get in. Teresa from In Sequence recognized me from here... hi, Teresa!... and told us where to get coffee. Which is good because otherwise I'd most likely have frozen to death.
There were some problems with the sound mix for the first couple of songs, but once they got those worked out, this show was just wonderful. Lucy has an enormous amount of charisma, I mean, buckets of it... she clearly loves her audience, and they love her. Er, WE love her.
There
were almost no men present at all - the MC actually welcomed everyone
by saying, "Welcome, ladies and ladies." Lucy's affection for her fans
was obvious and sincere and boundless, and the audience gave it back
big time. There is simply no way to fake the genuine respect and love
she has for her fans and they for her. She smiled at one point and said
the band and crew really didn't know until that night what her fans
were like.
At one point she told a moving story about "The Day of Love," when
Xena fans nationwide - possibly worldwide - worked for Habitat for
Humanity and other charitable cases in the name of the Xena fandom. She
said it made her entire career worthwhile.
Midway through the evening, she went offstage and came back in her famous fringed mini-dress from Celebrity Duets and blew the stage apart with "Tell Mama." And then Renee O'Connor put on a fringed mini-dress of her own and came out and danced while Lucy sang "What'd I Say."
This is where I trot out my journalistic voice and say something to
convey that the crowd went wild (which they did). The problem is, I
can't do it, because my inner fangirl went so wild I just gave up and
let her. Lucy's rapport with her audience was a thing of beauty, but
her chemistry with Renee O'Connor is a joy forever.
Set list:
1. Feeling Good
2. Jump Into My Fire
3. My Favorite Things/Down on My Knees (this is when the sound mix suddenly got fixed)
4. Total Control
5. Maxine
6. Dont Let Me Down (the first true show-stopping moment)
7. Like the Way I Do (channeling her inner Melissa Etheridge in a room full of lesbians)
8. Do You Wanna Dance
9. Cowboy Song
10. Something to Talk About
11.
Piece of My Heart (this brought the house down - and not just because
of the insertion of the word "Gabrielle" into the lyrics)
12. When Billy Comes Home (original song written and sung by her backup singer Charlotte, more on this later)
13. Tell Mama
14. What'd I Say (with Renee)
15. I'll Stand by You (dedicated very movingly to her fans)
16. Pull Up to My Bumper
17. Drive My Car
I have to give huge credit to KT for taking so many amazing photos we don't even know which ones to use. We hope you love these! I'll write more tomorrow - and will also liveblog Rob Tapert and Liz Friedman, and then Renee, and then Lucy, and then Lucy and Renee, from the convention tomorrow. Plus, lots more photos.
Its unbeliebvable great. I am a german girl and cannot go to this event of the year. Its terrible :-( Lucy is the greatest singer in world I think!!!! I hope my dream come true und I can see Lucy at such a concert once in my lifetime!!!!!!!
Lucy you are unbelievable great, REALLY!
Posted by: Katharina | 14 January 2007 at 06:12 AM
Thanks for those too far away to come.
Fausta, from France and waiting for the dvd !
Posted by: Fausta88 | 14 January 2007 at 06:33 AM
Thanks for this amazing report! :)
I wish I'd be there... I'm from Ukraine and it's impossible :( I love you, Lucy! And wait DVD too!!!
Posted by: Julie | 14 January 2007 at 11:00 AM
I am so extremely jealous.
Posted by: Flo | 14 January 2007 at 11:45 AM
Thank you ten thousand times thank you for blogging from the con and for this report from the Roxie - great photos too. Wish I'd been there but I'm on the other side of the world - in Wales, which come to think of it might be another world in itself but that's another story!
Posted by: susanne | 14 January 2007 at 01:43 PM
Hey there!
Thanks for the linkage. Fantastic report! Man, wasn't it the best?!
Posted by: Teresa | 14 January 2007 at 02:00 PM
Thank you for the report.
I really would like to see it now!!
Posted by: Barbara | 14 January 2007 at 02:57 PM
I am super fan of lucy and renee and would like to agardecer for them to exist and to be these pesoas loved. I passed namely of the existencia of them after the xena. I live in the Brazil, xena not passes more here. I bought all dvds of the xena so pra to kill the homesickness. Cantandom would like tambem to buy cds of lucy here ams in the brazil not
Posted by: lucyana moreira | 15 January 2007 at 09:23 AM
I was there. All I can say is, it was magical. I love Lucy as everyone does. I was just blown away with the electricity in the air starting with the line outside through to the end of the concert. My partner and I just sang and danced along to every song as if part of a very lucky, loving community. I was also lucky in that I only live an hour away from the Roxy but after that I may buy a plane ticket if this thing goes down again in NYC. One can only hope, it was that good.
Posted by: Teresa P | 19 January 2007 at 07:53 PM
I saw Lucy live at the Roxy on opening night and she was fantastic! It was the first con I have been able to attend but WOW what a weekend!!! Lucy and Renee are both such beautiful People, fine actresses, and just georgous! I'm so glad I could be there and plan on being there next year!. Lucy, if you are reading this I know I speak for everyone when I say WE LOVE YOU!!! And hope to see you again next year.
Kari
Posted by: Kari E | 19 January 2007 at 09:57 PM
Lucy I love you. As I would like I am ai in its show. You is a great woman, actress, singer. I love you. Congratulations for its great success! I am Brazilian but every day I enter in its site pra to have information on you
Posted by: lucyana moreira | 22 January 2007 at 08:14 AM
Hey Lucy, i am from Austria, you so great fantastic. I Love you and Renee so much!!! Weiter so!!!
Du bist die Beste der Welt!!!
lg ~Xena~ alias Judith
Posted by: Judith Winkler | 10 February 2007 at 01:48 PM
eu gosto assistir xena lucy e renne
Posted by: kassiana | 20 September 2007 at 03:42 PM
whoever said lucy lawless was the best singer in the world , i think your ears may be broken. her singing is anything but musical , actually its down right terrible. she has no ability to project her voice , it just kinda squeaks.
ex..
in the clip floating around of her singing "i was made for loving you..." the girl on stage with her totally owned her in the singing dept. actually i wish i knew her name, id buy her record. lucys singing was just plain hard on the ears.
she is hot though... haha
Posted by: chad | 27 July 2009 at 11:43 PM