Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...From Cabaret to Lenny to All That Jazz, Fosse has been rummaging through the junk heaps of our culture, looking for artifacts to symbolize his bleak view of human nature. In the process he has stripped away his self-indulgences, and he emerges here as a masterly director in full possession of a terrible vision...
...follow a patchwork order that lead to a somewhat muddled end. But the cast overcomes this one foible in the material, treating each number individually without trying to make each song blend into a climactic conclusion--which really never comes. Instead this production is more like a musical cabaret with each actor doning a different character for each sequence...
...group's outward goals and tactics: "We're really struggling to challenge racism at its deepest roots, not simply trying to get Blacks into Harvard." Echoing criticisms of the BSA's lack of concern for national issues and community work, about 15 students in 1981 picketed a BSA-sponsored cabaret held on the anniversary of the death of Malcolm X as part of the organization's annual Malcolm X weekend...
...track down Nathan's set-up, the "oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York." Both Saidel has a variety of roles: chores girl, hooher, Havana dancer. Although she says very little, her dancing is truly spectacular, and her high kicks and sultry writhing in the Havana cabaret make her one of the show's most memorable performers...
...finance of 14 years, and in another cast would garner high praise. She does well on her solo "Adelaide's Lament," and it is only when she shares the stage with Hughes that her charm begins to fads. The Hot Box chorus line suffers a similar fate. Their adequate cabaret numbers get lost in the shadows of the splendid acting...