„To hear and see Mehrling perform a song such as I’m a Stranger Here Myself (from One Touch of Venus, the 1943 Broadway musical Weill wrote with poet and lyricist Ogden Nash), is to experience the oyster of American musical theatre being infused with the grit of European cabaret. Mehrling, who is as gloriously expressive when singing in French as in English, is the very picture of theatrical elegance in a lovely, black velvet dress. However, as Weill’s music demands, her performance has an erotic, sometimes discomfiting edge as she kicks off her shoes and climbs onto the grand piano. Her singing of such well-known numbers as September Song and Speak Low is more than just testament to the beauty and range of her voice. They are filled with a yearning and regret that express, not only the fragility of life and love, but also, as Kosky comments, “the destruction of the European soul” in the Nazi Holocaust.“