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Pope, Off Script, Nods to Atheists In Holiday Call For World Peace

Matthew Morrison’s Show Nods to Cory Monteith at 54 Below

Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times

Matthew Morrison opening his cabaret show at 54 Below on Sunday, the day after his “Glee” co-star Cory Monteith was found dead.

Matthew Morrison’s show on Sunday evening at 54 Below began with a tribute to Cory Monteith, his co-star on the Fox musical-comedy series “Glee,” who died on Saturday. Mr. Morrison’s pensive rendition of “What I Did for Love” from “A Chorus Line,” accompanied on piano by Brad Ellis, was an appropriate gesture: Unadorned, sober and farsighted, it spoke for itself. At 34, Mr. Morrison is three years older than Mr. Monteith was, and he said he regarded him as a brother.

Revealing himself to be a performer of many parts, Mr. Morrison — outfitted in a cream-colored suit, hat, and bow tie — struck the pose of a cool, suave, modern song-and-dance man. His disciplined presentation combined elements of Hugh Jackman, Harry Connick Jr., Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake, but without flamboyant showmanship or emotional display.

Whirling in place, strutting, kicking, tipping his hat and treating the microphone like a vaudevillian’s cane, he used every inch of the limited space while maintaining a poker-faced detachment. Performing “Singin’ in the Rain,” he showed the ease and physical grace to carry it off, but not the pure joy that Gene Kelly imprinted on the song.

There was no trace of the impassioned, operatic tenor that Mr. Morrison unfurled as Fabrizio in “The Light in the Piazza.” A song like “On the Street Where You Live” from “My Fair Lady,” the declamatory ballad popularized by Vic Damone, was sped up as it often is nowadays, into a fast-swing number in which flowery lyrics that sound quaint in the age of the hookup, were swallowed by the swing.

The band, led by Mr. Ellis (the piano player on “Glee”), included Daniel Kalisher on guitar, Nathan Light on bass, Chase Baird on saxophone and Valerie Franco on drums. Its lean, sinewy arrangements reflected Mr. Morrison’s no-nonsense attitude.

If a certain passion was missing from an otherwise impeccable performance, Mr. Morrison, with his sleek Guy Madison looks and cool self-assurance, came across as a talent of formidable versatility and intelligence. Anyone who saw him in “The Light in the Piazza” knows that passion is there. On Sunday evening, he didn’t unpack it.

Matthew Morrison performs through Wednesday at 54 Below, 254 West 54th Street, Manhattan, (646)476-3551 or 54.com.

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Matthew Morrison’s Show Nods to Cory Monteith at 54 Below