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Sunday, August 31, 2003
From
"Ticket to Ride" at the opening to "Hey
Jude" at the close, Saturday evening's Beatles
tribute at Lake Clementia Amphitheater was everything
the sell-out crowd wanted.
People
yelled, danced and sang along to songs fondly remembered.
There were kids who couldn't possibly remember, and
they sang too.
The
group behind this bit of time travel is Rain, celebrated
for years for its note-perfect reproduction of Beatles
songs from every era of the group's music. Rain just
wrapped up a lengthy engagement in Reno.
In
the crowd before the show, Carol Fruechtl said she
saw Rain in Nevada and was eager to see them again.
She paid $75 last time. "It was worth every penny,"
she said.
Saturday's
show was nearly Beatlemania revisited.
Entertainment,
Theatre and Culture, the local group that staged the
event, shut off ticket sales 10 days ago, when they
hit 800. No one was sure how many people the amphitheater
and parking lot could accommodate, and 800 was by
far its largest crowd ever.
Almost
instantly, classified ads appeared on RanchoMurieta.com
from residents who were eager to buy tickets. The
Summerfest group auctioned two pairs of tickets to
the show -- each with a $20 face value -- and realized
$100 a pair.
The
crowd got its money's worth.
It's
clear how Rain has come by its reputation and following.
The music was produced by the four -- Joey Curatola
as Paul McCartney, Steve Landes as John Lennon, Joe
Bithorn as George Harrison and Ralph Castelli as Ringo
Starr -- and one musician, Mark Lewis, on keyboard
in the shadows.
Especially
in the opening set, from the Beatles' early days,
the performers worked hard to capture stage mannerisms
and vocal inflections.
Landes
wore the proper Lennon near-sighted squint as he looked
out into the crowd to congratulate it for a good job
of yelling "Hey!"
"Hey,
you work good together," he said, with just the
right touch of Liverpool. "You should form a
community or soomthin'."
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