Performing at the Boston Symphony Hall Centennial Gala Concert October 14, 2000 with Conductor Keith Lockhart of the Boston Pops (Mandy performed the "Singing in the Bathtub/Barber of Seville/Singing in the Rain" medley from his upcoming "Kidults CD and "Loving You/If I Loved You" from Oscar & Steve) Mandy participated in a gala concert celebrating the Centennial of Symphony Hall in Boston on Saturday, October 14. (The event was broadcast on Boston PBS stations only.) From the press release: "On Saturday evening, October 14, all eyes will focus on a gala televised concert, featuring the BSO, led by Music Director Seiji Ozawa, and the Boston Pops Orchestra, led by Conductor Keith Williams and Laureate Conductor (and Academy Award winner) John Williams. Joining them will be world-renowned guest artists, including Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, James Taylor, Mandy Patinkin, The Chieftains and The Harlem Boys Choir." From the Boston Herald: "[Boston Pops Conductor Keith] Lockhart opened his set with 'Comedy Tonight' from Stephen Sondheim's 'A Funny Thing Hapened on the Way to the Forum,' and closed it with the Grey-Wood-Gibbs 'Runnin' Wild.' In between, Mandy Patinkin took over the proceedings as only he can, offering first a novelty number,'Singin' in the Bathtub,' then a lovely medley of 'Loving You' from Sondheim's 'Passion' and 'If I Loved You' from Rodgers & Hammerstein's 'Carousel.'" ..."'Every hall you perform in is either an enemy or a friend. This one embraces your sound and sends it back to you. You can hear the softest whispers in the hall,' noted conductor Keith Lockhart during the same intermission. Another frequent visitor, singer Mandy Patinkin, smiled and agreed. 'I'm going to keep working with Keith until he really starts showing his age - which will be in another hundred years,' he said." From the Boston Globe: "Lockhart's chosen soloist was Broadway's Mandy Patinkin, who had sung on Lockhart's opening night as Pops conductor. Patinkin, casual in black T-shirt and sneakers, offered some amusing banter - he said he hoped he could perform long enough in Symphony Hall for Lockhart to look as old as he's supposed to. His singing brought some of the audience to its feet, but to these ears his voice was wobbly and thin-toned, his agony-school phrasing of a medley of Sondheim's ''Loving You'' and Rodgers's ''If I Loved You'' melodramatic. ''Singin' in the Bathtub'' is a novelty number that segues into ''The Barber of Seville'' and ''Singin' in the Rain'' and Patinkin trotted out every trick in his extensive repertoire, including a flirtation with concertmaster Tamara Smirnova and the aging stripper's vulgar gimmick of humiliating an innocent balding gentleman in the audience."

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