I was the youngest watching the show but I love carpenters songs because I always hear it from my dad. It was an amazing show and I was singing the entire time because I knew the lyrics. The performance was awesome
The gentleman portraying Richard Carpenter was quite an accomplished musician and vocalist. The lady portraying Karen Carpenter was sadly subpar. There were moments when the "Karen Carpenter"voice came through, but not often. I did wonder if she was performing with a sore or strained throat that can arise from a variety of sources. If so, it would explain the often straining vocals.
Me and my wife were really looking forward to this show. We are both in our 60’s and just love the music of the Carpenters. We grew up with their music. The show was at Ocean Resort & Casino in Atlantic City NJ. However, the show was a real disappointment from the opening song. Being a musician (Drummer) myself I quickly realized that they were using backing tracks. I noticed the drummer was not playing what the backing track were playing. He continued to play a straight beat while the backing track had drum fills going on. There were only 4 musicians onstage. The Pianist who was supposed to be Richard Cartpenter, a flute player and 2 female string musicians. There was no guitarist, bass guitar player, keyboardist or any horn section yet you could clearly hear horns, guitar and bass in the backing tracks. We felt cheated. Also the singer who was supposed to be Karen Carpenter sounded nothing like her. Her voice was too high and she had zero vibrato. Her pitch was also all over the place. Very flat. There was also too much talking in between songs. The show became campy and loungy. After 4 songs in me and my wife had enough and we left. We also had friends who were there but sitting In another section of the venue and later on when we met up with them they too said they had left after a few songs. If you love the Carpenters skip this show as I’m sure you will end up as disappointed as we were.
Great show. Made us feel like we were really watching the carpenters perform.
The theater where the show took place was fantastic the show however could use more music and less talking
0verall performance was outstanding. Only drawback for me was a little too much focus on Richard. In addition with all the Carpenter songs available, not sure we needed a medley of Burt Bacharach songs.
When you go to hear a Carpenters Tribute band, you are really going to hear "Karen"sing, and mostly their hits. The first 5 or 6 songs were familiar songs, probably from their albums, but not their familiar hits. Then "Karen"left the stage leaving "Richard"to spend about 20 minutes on his own. First, he brought audience members on the stage to do a Spike Jones bit with bicycle horns and duck calls and then to play an elongated piano mashup of tunes "suggested"by the audience. The man is a good pianist, but not what we came to hear. When "Karen"came back out she did about a 10-15 minute medley covering most of the Carpenters hits, singing about 1 verse of each. Toward the end she sang all of "We've only just begun"and possibly one other hit song. I wouldn't pay to go see them again.
The show was very boring that we didnt finish it.we were not impressed at all
I had high hopes for this show, but it really felt very flat. There was way too much talking and barely any singing. Was looking forward to hearing all of the Carpenter songs, but all of the best songs they did a medley. Everyone around me was extremely disappointed and many people walked out. If you are a carpenters fan, skip this and go see top of the world.
They did a nice job, but would have liked to hear more singing and less history.
