20th Annual Benefit Weekend

Saturday, January 15, 2005

Christine Lavin

kept everyone laughing with a set that began with her classic What was I Thinking? Then, with the 'Liberal Songbook' in her hand, she sang I'm a Card-Carrying Bleeding Heart Liberal, by the legendary, 85 year old songwriter, Ervin Drake. And, to prove to Ervin that she really did sing his song, she called him on her cellphone and had a member of the audience hold the cellphone so he could hear the whole song. Christine then sang her Sometimes Mother Really Does Know Best. This song, according to Christine, has a 'dark ending' and a 'wholesome ending' and tonight she sang them both. And to close her set she got help from all of the show's male performers on her Sensitive New Age Guys.