Even at 100, Judy Garland Commands Carnegie Hall

Jessica Vosk didn’t only sing the Garland songbook, she talked about the legend and included lots of clips from the 1963-’64 ‘Judy Garland Show.’

Richard Termine
Jessica Vosk at Carnegie Hall during ‘Get Happy: A Judy Garland Centennial Celebration.’ Richard Termine

‘Get Happy: A Judy Garland Centennial Celebration’
Jessica Vosk with special guest Andy Karl, Carnegie Hall  

On the whole, there have been fewer celebrations of the centennial of Judy Garland in 2022 than there were for Frank Sinatra during his centennial year, 2015. That’s not because Garland is less universally beloved than Sinatra, but rather because it now seems like a completely different world than it was seven years ago. Case in point: On the Sunday before the actual birthday in June, the redoubtable Justin Sayre hosted an all-star “Judy” event at Joe’s Pub that I had been looking forward to for weeks. At the last minute, I was confined to my uptown apartment by Covid. 

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