Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CABARET. Onto the sleazy canvas of a 1930 Berlin nightspot, the Kit Kat Klub, this musical squeezes the borrowed pigments of bloatedly satiric George Grosz cartoons, Brecht-Weillschmerz, and the black-gartered cinemantics of the Dietrich of The Blue Angel. The atmospherics make for a whale of a production but a minnow of a show...
FALLA: LA VIDA BREVE (2 LPs; Angel). This short opera is about the short, unhappy life of Salud, a gypsy girl who is cruelly betrayed by her lover and falls dead at his wedding. The gypsy's passion and her pathos are exploited to the full by Spanish Soprano Victoria de los Angeles-unfortunately without much help from supporting singers. Falla's early work is studded with folk dances and flamenco songs, all fierily clicked off by the National Orchestra of Spain, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducting...
...along with Lady Bird's nephew, T. J. Taylor III and his family, and Mrs. Jessie Hunter, curator of the President's boyhood home, dropped in to eat turkey (one domestic, one wild), cornbread dressing, string beans, whipped sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping, molded cranberry salad and angel food cake...
Grosz, the sardonic sadomasochism of Bertolt Brecht, the tinkling melancholic musical style of Kurt Weill, and the plumpish, thigh-bared, black-gartered allure of Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel. Add a living link to the period in Weill's widow, Actress Lotte Lenya, with her cynical eyes and big-city-scarred voice. Set this musical by committee in a chic-sleazy nightspot called the Kit Kat Klub, supply a rouged M.C. played with androgynous guile by Joel Grey, bring on hip-roiling, braless chorines with soft-boiled smiles and any kind of love for sale, orchestrate...
...angel of the Lord caused his countenance to shine upon Jonathan, "For thou to lose were like unto passing a needle through the eye of a camel, possible but extremely difficult." Jonathan was mightily glad at this and raised a joyous shout unto the Lord...