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"There's Always One More Song To Sing, the new cabaret at the downtown Crepe de Paris restaurant, is a charming, thoroughly entertaining showcase for singer/actress Shelly Burch, a new-to-Seattle Broadway and regional theater veteran. Burch is a knockout entertainer with a big belting Broadway voice than can turn into a hushed whisper when needed.

Martin Charnin directs and produces One More Song To Sing, a revue obviously designed to introduce Burch to Seattle music fans (and producers) and launch her Emerald City career. The evening could have easily been a misguided vanity project, but it succeeds as a strong night of cabaret.

"I'm Putting Me In Your Hands," by Charnin and Colin Romoff, opens the show and nearly overwhelms the intimate Crepe de Paris. A charming "Sing Me Pretty," words and music by Charnin, follows with the winning lyric that seems to capture Burch's "Cockeyed Optimist" personality-"Label me a Pollyanna/I'll help you paint the banner." An anthem of show business follows, Charnin's "I Love Music" ("I love music/Lawrence Welk or Guns & Roses" go the lyrics).

The rousing show-ending title song, "There's Always One More Song To Sing," is a new song by Charnin-and it's a winner in every department.

Throughout the evening, Burch is obviously a terrific talent. Bits&Bytes would happily return to the show for a second time.
--Milton W. Hamlin, SGN A&E Writer (Bits&Bytes)