On a return to New York City and Feinstein's at Loews Regency after a long stay in his native Australia, David Campbell opened a sizzling, dazzling, razzmatazzling act with Peter Allen's "When I Get My Name in Lights."
How cunning of him to toot a rousing ditty by the original Boy From Oz as a signal that the next boite-shaking Boy From Oz is back and again ready to do Peter Allen duty stateside.The 5'7" or 5'8" bundle of dynamite in a shiny three-piece suit went even further in presenting his credentials.
With only two interruptions to establish his pop cred -- the Rascals's "How Can I Be Sure?" and the Wayne Newton-identified "Danke Shoen"--he put together a program dictated by "On Broadway," his new CD. He certainly wants the disc and his live recreation of it to be seen as an audition for the leading-man role in just about any musical ever written or about to be written. Back home, he's already played many of the classic characters and can surely do so here.
First Nighter: David Campbell From Down Under Goes Way Up and Over (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-finkle/first-nighter-david-campb_b_790059.html)