Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cabaret is a whale of a production and a minnow of a show. It is a musical built on the oozing decadence of 1930 Berlin, and is itself a form of decadence, a victory of surface over substance...
...Druten adapted it in the 1951 Broadway hit I Am a Camera, with Julie Harris playing Heroine Sally Bowles, a girl as wispy, wayward and vulnerable as the smoke at the end of her jaunty cigarette holder. A still different set of foster parents put their mark on Cabaret. It is a montage of the bloatedly satiric cartoons of George...
...binding is not a book, and the book has been lost in transit. The "I" of Isherwood's Berlin camera was the author himself, intelligent, sentient, an amused and ironic observer of a society in vortex. The "I" (Bert Convy) of Cabaret is a gaping boy tourist with a typewriter. In the Isherwood-Van Druten versions, Sally Bowles focused the disorder around her in personal disorientation, sex-sipped sorrow, pleasure-bent pain. The part is beyond the technique and temperament of Jill Haworth. Sally is a mixture of waif and wanton, gin and gallantry; Actress Haworth...
Whoosh. Becaud studied piano and composition, and was making a meager living writing cabaret songs when a friend suggested in 1953 that he ought to sing them as well. "When I told my wife I was going to sing," he recalls, "she said, 'You're not going to do that!' 'Yes, I am,' I said. We laughed for three hours...
...delivered onstage with maniacal precision, their reflections on the state of the world have fetched Hendra and Ullett all the way to the colonies, to three guest shots so far on Ed Sullivan's TV show, and currently to an imposing seven-month run at the Manhattan cabaret PLaza...