27 января 2004

Kaluga - the city of Tsiokovkiy and "People's Artists"

The report of our spec. correspondent.

I live in Kaluga and I understand perfectly that I won't have time to visit Moscow, so I considered the miss of "People's" concert in my native town as a crime.
Firstly, I'd better say a few words about the age of the public. It is interesting, it seemed to me, with 0.5 dioptry on the left eye, that there were very little kids - 3 to 10 years, mature people -about 30 years old and people like me at the age of 18-19. The concert itself began right in time, which is very strange for our town, because, according to the stories of my friends, they had to wait some capital "stars" for about 1.5 hours or more.
The concert was conducted by Chumakov, dressed in jeans trousers, a grey shirt in a black strip and a velveteen jacket of color of cocoa with milk He looked stylish. His jokes were like his sharp noses classical shoes.
The first was: Yes, yes - he - Alexey Goman, I would say flight out on the stage. Having started with a high tone, I mean the energetic, the artist has received on merits - the public has poured Lesha with a noisy wave of applause.
The second was Julia Valeeva, and the reaction of the hall was the same.
Then Alexander Panajotov came out on the stage and: a squall of applause again. He didn't sing a chord, and had such a reception. He might not to sing any more. But singing is the main thing in life for Sasha, so he did it. And he did it well!
As usually Irina Chernysheva pleased and lukewarm public was warmed up more and more and more.
When Oxana Kazakova was performing "I say for goodbye", venerable ladies and gentlemen cried, and I felt the itching on my back(not Kazakova's or Fridland but my own). I liked it very much. Thank you Oxana, you didn't let me down! The public was in a delight.
After the performance of "Moon and Tequila" our winner got so many applauses like he was the "veteran national artist".
The result was amazing: Alexey Goman got the majority of flowers from the young public, Alexander Panajotov - from the generation of 30ties. And Chumakov was presented by a little boy. He was running away already, when Alexey bent down to see who it was and represented something ugly-surprising on his face(he can) :(laugh in the hall). Alexey has caught up tha boy and has shaken hands with him.
A special word for "Assorti" band. The word is short but strong. The girls fired up the hall! Great!
In the very end Chumakov song "SEXBOMB" and totally melted the harts of Kaluga citizens. Well, during the last two song the audience song standing, clapping hands and dancing.
One more funny thing: a little girl wanted to present Chumakov a flower, but a policeman prevented that. Then Chumakov said to him: "Policeman let girl go, look at her kind eyes".
During one of his performances Alexey Goman asked to put off the lights out of his face to let him see the first rows. He looked at them and said, satisfied, that then he not just felt the hall but saw it too.
After the concert there were the fans!!! One threw a soft toy similar to pokemon to Chumakov. He hardly caught it and wanted to trough it back but changed his mind:
Hooray!!!
The tour is continuing well, I think. There are lots of towns ahead, and I seem to voyage with "People's" to the towns of our huge country land.