By Marcia Blondin***The second concert of the Fiesta de Cabaret series in Vallarta featured David Sabella, who played Mary Sunshine for a decade in Chicago, The Musical.
Sabella relived for us the moments leading up to auditioning for and landing the dream job of a lifetime. On Broadway, shoulder to shoulder with some of the 
best in the business. It was a success beyond his wildest imaginings until even that, after a few glory years, was no longer enough. During that time, Sabella married his lover in Massachusetts, one of the first gay couples to do so in the US, and embarked on yet another trailblazing journey to adopt their family. Twenty years later, the emotional roller coaster remains of falling in love with an abruptly abandoned baby girl to another child given, loved, then taken back; we could hear David’s heart break.
The storytelling was interwoven with snapping fingers and divine synchronicity on the piano by Maestro David Maiocco. The two Ds have been friends for 30 years; their collaborations run smoothly as silk onstage.
Razzle Dazzle is an incredibly moving triumph, a retrospect of multiple successes achieved by jumping through extremely complicated hoops.
Today, David Sabella lives in Puerto Vallarta, thousands of miles from Broadway, and he is still showing the world what a first-rate sorcerer he is. A star.
———————Marcia Blondin
