Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's best singers and musicians will be on display at the Loeb Experimental Theater tonight entertaining alumni, seniors and their parents at a special fund-raising cabaret...
...moneyed suburbs, the price on your integrity becomes too big to resist: I knew that if Seattle had discovered British protest bands, their days were numbered. Three years later, Paul, Welfer--the prototypical Angry Young Man--cashed in the Jam's inarticulate outrage for the smooth sounds of cabaret Jazz at the same time that Boy George--the painted mockery of preening masculinity--snared the attention of transatlantic audiences. The dire warnings about the System co-opting integrity bands like the Clash was only rock-press pablum. Even if Joe Strummer had held on to his elitist-bashing ethics...
...Cabaret Atmosphere...
Bird and Gretzky are each involved in a long-standing relationship with one woman. Gretzky's sweetheart Vickie Moss is a cabaret singer. Joey, the Oilers' clubhouse boy, is her younger brother. From a momentary marriage to a cheerleader, Bird has a seven-year-old daughter he sees in the summertime. His companion is a Kelly Girl secretary named Dinah Mattingly. Neither man is extravagant, though Gretzky likes to dress. No longer fazed by clothes, Bird plucked his MVP trophy in shirtsleeves from a crowd of tuxedoes. Both are adept at trading in the Ferraris and Trans Ams they...
...this cabaret the guiding idea is improvisation. Most of the dozen or so skits in each revue are scripted and rehearsed, but they begin life as spontaneous vignettes developed at the end of each night's performance, when the audience is asked to yell out ideas for the cast to work up. The actors retreat backstage to concoct some appropriate sketches, then return with the results. Afterward, cast and director refine the best bits into formal scenes for the next revue. Tonight the audience is asked to suggest professions. "Psycho killer!" someone shouts. O.K., you asked for it. Dan Castellaneta...