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'Ella' review: Giving voice to a legend

Originally published: October 1, 2012 5:00 PM
Updated: October 2, 2012 10:22 AM
By STEVE PARKS  steve.parks@newsday.com

Photo credit: Queens Theatre | Tina Fabrique plays Ella Fitzgerald in the musical "Ella" at Queens Theatre through Oct. 7, 2012

First, the voice.

To create a musical about the life of Ella Fitzgerald, forget her biography. Forget the songbook spanning two-thirds of the 20th century. Forget even the musicians, who were as much family to her as her real family. Without a voice that evokes melted chocolate with its teasingly smooth highs and lows -- without, in short, Ella -- you have nothing.

Because of Tina Fabrique,...