Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laboring in a style inappropriate for her, because she proved herself capable of handling so many other musical genres that night. She ventured into European cabaret balladry with "Party lights" and "In the Winter," singing with a Continental touch of theatrics over her melodramatic piano work. "Silly Habits," a warm supper-club blues tune, was equally charming. Her encore, the bittersweet show business ode "Stars," presented her at her finest, revealing great songwriting craft while ringing true emotionally...
Energies thwarted in Israel often come bursting forth in the U.S. Yigal Mizrahi, 27, a former cabaret owner in Tel Aviv who went to New York in 1975, has opened an Israeli nightclub in New York called Peacock's Piano Bar. Customers dance the hora on its oversize dance floor, "I miss Israel," Mizrahi says. "That's why I started this club. I wanted to give Israelis in America some of the spirit of home." Another successful immigrant is Chaim Zitman, 34, who left Israel 13 years ago as a student, and has become a millionaire selling electronic...
...room. It was modestly successful for 14 years, bringing in such performers as Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan. But topflight nonrock talent became increasingly hard to find from season to season, and Partners May and Daly decided to turn the place into a European-style cabaret...
...million renovation gave the Grill a new stage, elaborate lighting and sound systems, and a low-key décor using muted browns, beiges and honey-colored furniture for at most 250 guests. The first cabaret show, Viva! Viva!, ran for 13 months. Kicks, produced, directed, choreographed and emceed by an exuberant Frenchman named Peter Jackson, consists of ten numbers, which are periodically changed, performed to taped music that ranges from the Beatles to Wagner. The show runs for 56 minutes. Says Jackson: "An American audience starts to scratch after an hour...
Dinner, a distinct cut above most cabaret fare, comes from a kitchen that also provides more elaborate menus for the Rainbow Room and nine private dining rooms. (At lunchtime the whole Rainbow complex is a private club for businessmen.) But then, when les girls are on, few eyes are riveted on the leg of lamb...