Pet Clark was amazing! 76 years old, 24 songs, two sets, she is an icon whether she wants to admit it or not! Thanks Petula, you made for a special evening!

Petula Clark is the consummate professional, and seemed in full command of her voice and intellect. Amazing.

A very impressive concert. It showed that Petula is indeed a fabulous entertainer, very talented. This was our first time in the old Castro Theater, and it is fantastic

I agree with most of the other reviews... The first half of the show had many little disappointments, not the least of which was her voice. I guess at 76 years young you cant expect her to sound like 26, but she quite rallied in the second half. Our seats were at the back of the theatre also, last row, over on the side, while many seats went unfilled. Still it was an enjoyable night and a treat to hear her sing. Please bring more 'twilight' entertainers to the Castro Theatre for those of us too young to remember ( yes, though I am pushing 50, I was a youngster in this crowd. )

Adore petula !!! but sloppy is a bad thing!! Petula looks and acts fantastic !! She herself is the only one here that does not need a face lift, or any other lift for that matter, but her show seems haphazard. Mocking herself, and some of her songs while singing them, is uncomfortable. The sound of the band not good. Her clothes terrible. Out side of her hits, she needs to pick better songs, god knows she has tons to pick from in her own book of hits She works so hard and gives so much of herself, but the show dose not come together. Petula you desrve better than this ! and so do we !
Henrik

Great show -- but we were very disappointed with the seats we got, which were literally as far back in the house as you could be -- in the very last row, four seats from the outer aisle and right in front of the sound board, with his light shining over us. This in spite of a number of rows of empty seats in front of us -- and the fact that we had bought our tickets way back in early February.

I am a child of 1960s and remember how Petula Clark's song "Downtown" made me sparkle. She is so talented. Even at the age of what? 76? she was so positive and her voice was all right for the most part. She is a solid songwriter and has a wonderful spirit. She is a great model for my future!! Such a good entertainer, too.

The seating was fine, as we had binoculars. She was pleasant, warm, giving and sang a many songs and shared many stories. Her playing of the piano while singing was a highlight. I love the Castro Theatre and it was so enjoyable to be there and to see Petula.

I loved the show. I think the volume on her mike was not as strong in the first act, because some of the lyrics were being dropped or drowned out by the horns on the stage, but things were better in the second act. Her voice is still very strong, particularly for being 76 years old. I noted some of the arrangements on her hits were a bit different, maybe jazzier, but I realized that she has been singing some of them for 45 years, so this must be a compromise for her to please the fans by singing them but to mix them up a bit to please herself and keep from being bored. Everyone I spoke with after the show was very pleased with her.

Pleasantly surprised at how long the show was. Love the venue, The Castro Theatre is great. My seats from Goldstar were 10 rows from the stage and excellent. As others have commented, at first I was cringing when Petula was singing but as the show went on - especially following intermission - she dug in and sang her heart out. She did throw away quite a few of the Tony Hatch numbers which are glorious but she seemed either sick of or disconnected from. But the voice is still instantly recognizable and her phrasing is impeccable. She did a number of songs she has written which displayed more range than all the hits combined, from Memphis twang to Bacharachian flows, and the spoken word bit was surprisingly effective. I think Clark is most proud these days of her work in musical theatre and those numbers were fabulous. The band was good and she worked her tush off. I saw Lesley Gore at Yoshi's last month and, though she no longer sounds like a teenage girl, her voice has gotten better and she sang the hits with as much conviction and respect as her newer more jazz-tinged material, and it was a consummate evening of vocal art. I'd hoped for the same from Petula Clark. Her 60s work is among my favorite of all music. I did not feel short changed as I paid half price for fabulous seats in an incredible theater reeking of glamour amongst hundreds of healthy happy gay men of roughly my same vintage watching a legend from my teenage years do her thing.

Was getting quite uncomfortable and not a little concerned after her first few songs where her pitches were all over the map and the orchestra easily overpowered her. She sounded frail and unable to sustain any note longer than four beats. Were the monitors not working? The 60's medley of her hits was trite and her lesser known songs were boring. All that being said, she perked up amazingly as the show went on and actually sounded lovely - I found her "la Vie en Rose" charming as well as the poem she read which she had penned while on Eurostar. It was great to hear her old hits when she finally sang them in act II and her rapport w/ the audience was very good. The intermission was long because of inadequate restroom facilities at the Castro - also, the lighting was minimal because the electrical infrastructure of the old theater can't handle more than a couple of 100 watt bulbs - aux power was cabled in from generators in the side alley. The Nassers should invest in upgraded wiring in order to do justice to some more complex production acts if they want to attract them to their glorious theater. It was great fun seeing the old gal in the dowager of S.F. theaters, the Castro. Also fun (as a 55year old) being amidst so many middle-aged and senior, gay men and feeling fairly "young"!

We had a wonderful time. A 77, Petula gave us 2 hours of music, poetry, humor and so many great true life stories. The décor and lighting were modest, but it did not matter as she had the talent and heart to keep us excited all along. My only comments are 1/ Goldstar gave us bad seats, thankfully, after asking if we could exchange our tickets with better seats, we were granted much better seats, quite close to the stage. 2/ the band played too loud the 1st part of the show. Overall, a show full of heart 7 soul.

My husband and I enjoyed the concert. It brought back a lot of good memories. We were surprised she had such a long concert and delighted at her energy and sense of humor. However, we would have preferred a shorter intermission or a shorter concert with no intermission.

We had a ball! She was charming, witty and full of energy. She performed so many different songs - not just the oldies - I thought the show was delightful and entertaining and I sure enjoyed seeing someone who still enjoys life and her career as much as she.

She focused way too much on her lesser known songs (or songs that others made famous).

When she did sing her well-known songs. her heart wasn't in it...she even mocked some of her own lines while singing her biggest hit, "Downtown".

What's worse is that she didn't even sing all of her well-known songs, just most of them.

She still can belt out the songs pretty good, though, but only when she wanted to.

I was very disappointed after first few songs. It felt like a bad karoake singer trying her best to mimic someone else. But it got better towards the end, and my family and I finally got to enjoy the night.

She was singing to the converted. The audience was very "generours" to her performance. She has not taken care of her voice, which is failing. She could not hit the high notes so maybe she should key some of those songs lower. At times pitch was all over the place except the right place. It was a fun evening of nostalgia but maybe a new ending is needed, she has used this same concert ending for decades now.

What a fanstastic evening of song, music, poetry, sharing. Wow, can Petula sing! I only regretted that the band overpowered her the first half of the show, but they got it right for the second half. and please someone tell the Castro Theater not to sell Popcorn for a concert like this...sheesh!!! do ya think the noisy bags and crunching popcorn added to the quality of the evening especially when someone like Petutla Clark is singing a ballad! Come on guys you don't need to nickel and dime such a great venue! Here's a thought try coffees and cookies, instead of having everyone going out at intermission to buy them and sneak them in!!