As regular fans know the New York concerts are always extra special because they never know which one of Alan's talented musician friends will join them, who may be working in the city at the same time. On this occasion it was Russell Crowe.
Again there were not a lot photographs shared on social media of Russell performing with Alan and his Beautiful, Beautiful Band. I waited a couple of days to see if any more appeared after the concert.
I have included some paragraphs from a newspaper article about the concert and a screenshot of a photograph shared on Instagram of Alan Doyle and Russell Crowe performing on stage at this concert. The newspaper article was edited for copyright reasons. No copyright infringement intended.
'Russell Crowe gives surprise performance in Bay Shore' by Frank Lovece published on the 18 November, 2018 at newsday.com
"...I've just come from work. Sorry about the tracksuit," Crowe, 54, quipped in a YouTube video of his Friday performance with Doyle and the Beautiful Beautiful Band at the YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts. After a little more patter, the actor — who has been in Manhattan shooting the lead in Showtime's upcoming miniseries based on Gabriel Sherman's 2014 biography of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, "The Loudest Voice in the Room" — then played an acoustic guitar and sang the Kris Kristofferson-penned "Sunday Morning Coming Down," popularized in 1970 by Johnny Cash.
Afterward, Crowe and Doyle — a songwriting team since the early 2000s — performed a duet of Cash's 1968 hit "Folsom Prison Blues." Between songs Crowe told the audience, "I've been living in [sic] Long Island again. I lived here in pre-Biblical times," he joked, "when I was [playing] Noah," the title role in Darren Aronofsky's 2014 movie, filmed in Oyster Bay. "But, yeah," he continued, "I'm back on Long Island with my people."...
'I'm here till May," the actor said, going on to explain his somewhat puffy look onstage from his having been "wearing, like, 20 pounds of silicon prosthetics on my face at the moment to play Roger Ailes … It's very weird. I call it 'face jail.' I go to work in the morning, I spend five hours in the chair, they glue this . . . [expletive] to my face and I'm in face jail for about 12 or 14 hours."
The day after the gig, Crowe, who has starred in films including 2000's “Gladiator," 2001's "A Beautiful Mind" and the recently released "Boy Erased,"/ tweeted "A little casual in a track suit and a little rough around the edges due to no rehearsal or soundcheck, and the minor detail of never having done this particular song together... ever, but, any time I can get on a stage with @alanthomasdoyle is a good time."...
(photo credit sauronshadow)
