Carmen

As the playbill said: The singer, not the opera.

And there she was Saturday night, Carmen Rodriguez, singing her life story to a sold-out Waterfront Playhouse.

It was a remarkable show, tying numbers together with a seamless career travelogue: Key West to Way West to Las Vegas to time on the road and then back home, with everything from Carole King to Beatles to Donna Summer to Rogers and Hart to Sondheim.

Danny Weathers joined her for one number, and did all he could to steal the show with his own fine voice, but she held it as effortlessly as a spray of calla lilies.

And afterward, over drinks in the courtyard, she was as gracious and sweet as her voice.

Nice to know I can still feel a crush at this advanced age.