The Song Must Go On
Rufus Wainwright Makes the Best of a Rainy Situation at Watermill's Annual Summer Benefit
Rufus Wainwright and the good people at the Watermill Center weren't going to let a little thing like Tropical Storm Danny get in the way of their Last Song of Summer. With buckets of rain pounding Southampton all day Saturday, the Viktor & Rolf Parfums-sponsored benefit concert was moved to the field house of the Ross School, forcing the likes of Anjelica Huston, Mary-Louise Parker, and Jay McInerney onto Brooks Brothers beach towels tossed over gym mats. "Who invited Danny, anyway?" Wainwright teased from the stage, where he was joined by mother Kate McGarrigle, sister Martha Wainwright, and, for a few special numbers, Norah Jones.
Just as they were about to launch into what Wainwright called "an uptempo song about a cowboy with syphilis," a few warm rays poked through the clouds and bounced on the gym's hardwood floors. "The sun always comes out when we play together," he said. The entire audience was beaming when the Wainwright sibs accompanied Jones for a performance of her Grammy-winning hit "Don't Know Why." "They gave us lemons, so we made lemonade," said benefit co-chair Lisa Anastos. "Actually, we did one better: We made martinis!"
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