A friend he was staying with in Wilmington dissuaded him from the notion of taking his show on the road, so to speak. Instead, he did socially distanced concerts for her neighbors several weeks running in her Glen Meade front yard. It was a way to get things out musically, Whitted said. There s a lot of music in him, as Kennedy whom he met in 1997 during a production of Godspell at Cape Fear Regional Theatre can attest. Brian Whitted is a musical genius, Kennedy wrote in a Facebook message. I do not use that term lightly. Pianist. Singer. Arranger. Comedian . He is a beautifully trained musician and can play anything, from Rachmaninoff to Stevie Wonder to Sondheim.