How much of this was shtick to play right into our expectations? Hard to say, and that’s the brilliance of it. I’m traumatized,” Wynonna declared, perhaps a sign that the power balance can never be permanently shifted. I’m now the parent.”īut for how long? Not much later, 69-year-old Naomi jokingly reached out and touched her 51-year-old daughter’s face during the second verse of “Grandpa (Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Old Days). “(Mom)’s reached that age where crazy is kinda normal,” she later observes.Īnd still at another point, “The parent role has switched. When Naomi rises up on a lift (left over from the theater’s “Phantom” days) flanked by two Chippendales, she asks, “Are you satisfied I let you do that?” “When I was 18, I would have blown a gasket over that dress,” Wynonna declares at one point. If you for some reason didn’t know this going into opening night Wednesday, you did by the end of the show. We all know mom Naomi used to get on daughter Wynonna’s nerves and that Judds reunions now happen only when Wynonna agrees to it. Only show people may understand it, but here goes: It was hard to tell the preloaded, scripted banter from the spontaneous, off-the-cuff comments.
It’s a fairly close race.Īnd here is what may be the ultimate Las Vegas compliment. Intentional or not, their Venetian reunion has that perfect balance of “entertainer” and “musician.” When the show is over, the songs turned out to be a little less interesting than the banter, but not by much. The mother and daughter duo, who were riding high as America’s pop-country sweethearts the year Taylor Swift was born, only played Las Vegas as an occasional concert act over the years.
The Judds are still about keeping it real. Courtesy, Erik Kabik Photography/ MediaPunch From left, Wynonna and Naomi Judd perform on opening night at the Venetian on Wednesday, Oct.
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