Reviews of Do Re Mi, Democracy

"Every once in a while, someone pipes up to criticize contemporary cabaret as no longer a place to hear vital and stinging satire. Elaine St. George has positioned herself as the counter-argument. In her current show, 'Do Re Mi, Democracy,' she indicts politics, parties, and partisanship with what the late revue entrepreneur Julius Monk used to call 'the iron fist in the velvet glove.'

A sizeable woman with a sizable sense of the comical (and a sizable tattoo emblazoned on her right breast), St. George has searched the political song catalog for doozies from the last 70 years, the earliest being 'If I Became the President' from the George and Ira Gershwin 'Strike Up the Band.' She's delved so assiduously that she's retrieved updated-for-inflation 'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?' lyrics that E. Y. Harburg published on The New York Times op-ed page in 1974. For the sake of comic variety, she sings 'I Love You So,' a 1997 power ballad Senator Orrin Hatch, who knows from power, scribbled." -- Back Stage, November 10-16, 2000

"In a well researched show about songs, song writing and politics, Elaine St. George courageously tackles most of the assumptions and presumptions which surround the process of elections, campaign speeches, and the vagaries of politics and the women and men who "practice" within that often-less-than-noble sub-species of democracy... Elaine St. George performs these songs with a voice that seems to have no range limits, a rich and well trained instrument which expresses the riches of a well tuned soul. Ms. St. George is a passionate, soulful, and honest singer who respects the notes she sings from music she believes in." -- Theater Reviews Limited