Bill Brownlee

Onetime Kansas City-based blues singer inhabits the spirit of the 1960s rock legend

“I Got Rhythm,” an original production at Quality Hill Playhouse, is a quaint revue of dance-oriented songs associated with the musicals of the 1930s. The beat rarely falters during the unflaggingly charming if somewhat dainty two-act show, but the tone of the production is curiously timid.

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One of the youngest couples in the audience at Quality Hill Playhouse’s “You’ve Got a Friend” bolted for the exit at the conclusion of the first selection on Saturday. They may have been responding to an urgent message from a babysitter, but it’s just as likely that they immediately realized that the fusty production centered on songs written by Carole King and James Taylor was not to their tastes.

An unruly youth movement that has infiltrated the pop charts attracted more than 15,000 revelers to the Flyover festival at Providence Medical Center Amphitheater on Saturday.

Girls and young women weren’t the only members of the audience of 13,500 who screamed with excitement at the Sprint Center on Friday.

The 21-year-old sensation performed for 15,500, who made sure to document their presence with their phones.

The sophisticated pop star brought a dramatically different approach to Monday night’s concert.

An impressive bill of romantic balladeers will serenade lovers at the Sprint Center after Valentine’s Day.

This review of a 2014 concert applauds the classic crooner for evolving without compromising his art. Bennett died Friday in New York.