Buble hams it up with cheese, schlock |
Michael Buble is a ham.
He's a very good singer, but he's a stellar performer. In the tradition of the great standards singers before him, Buble has a sterling voice that is only outshined by his undeniable wit, confident banter and flirtatious charm.
And so he had the nearly packed house at the Wells Fargo Theatre enrapt and in stitches throughout a 90-plus-minute show Wednesday night that spanned decades with the ease of Buble's gentle, conversational allure.
From the set-opening "I'm Your Man" to the set-closing "That's Life," Buble had his set down pat on Wednesday.
The songs sounded better than the recordings. The transitions were flawless. His voice was, quite literally, gorgeous. But that's not to say there wasn't a healthy serving of cheese and schlock that came along with Buble's polished routine.
He marveled at Mayor John Hickenlooper's name, making fun of its bulbousness.
"It reminds me of a bad '70s sitcom where there's the one guy who always gets in trouble," he said, growling Hick's last name.
Buble beat-boxed his way through a segment of his most current record's title track, "Call Me Irresponsible."
He took a lap through the crowd and accused the people in the upper levels of fondling his buttocks.
He called tenor sax player Mark Small "Mark Biggie Smalls." And while introducing drummer Robert Perkins, he broke into the chorus of Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine's "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You."
Of course he admitted he's a goofball. And to his credit, he rarely mixed the humor and the music. For the most part, the music was grand and deserving of the audience's attention.
His "Fever" was sexy and provocative, as was his "Me and Mrs. Jones," of which he posed the question, "What could be more romantic than a married woman cheating on her husband with a younger man?"
The ladies in the audience loved that one.
His "I've Got The World on a String" acted as boasting time for Buble and his muscular 13-piece orchestra - a band that was fronted by a potent eight-piece brass-woodwinds section that he relied upon heavily throughout.
Those eight players boosted some of Buble's gigantic arrangements into the stratosphere.
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