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Story by NY Times
Written by Nate Chinen

Tony Bennett was waiting, in a Brioni tuxedo and an uncertain silence, onstage at Frederick P. Rose Hall in Manhattan. Moments earlier, he’d been singing the Tin Pan Alley tune “Goody Goody,” while Lady Gaga — polymorphic pop star, supersize cult hero and, for the moment, his co-headliner — muttered coquettish protestations from an enormous rocking chair, cartoon-chic in a pink cocktail dress, a wide-brim black hat and satiny opera gloves.

Then she tottered off for her fourth costume change in six songs, leaving several stagehands to contend with the chair. Mr. Bennett stood and watched the changeover, one hand resting on the curve of a grand piano, before his gaze turned to the audience, at which point he tossed off a deadpan line: “I can’t wait to get back in show business.”


Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga onstage at Frederick P. Rose Hall in Manhattan in July for PBS’s “Great Performances,” a preview of their album, “Cheek to Cheek.” Credit Joe Sinnott/Thirteen Productions

Mr. Bennett, who turned 88 last month, and Lady Gaga, 60 years his junior, had set up shop at the Rose Theater one night this summer to tape a forthcoming episode of “Great Performances” on PBS. Accompanied by a big band, a combo and an orchestra, with set and lighting design by the director Robert Wilson, they made the concert into a full-dress preview of their plush new album, “Cheek to Cheek.”

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