Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artists in the avant- garde circle that formed around the collectors Louise and Walter Arensberg, took a special delight in sowing his work with sexual hints. The handlebar of a vaudeville trick rider's bicycle turns into a penis aimed at his crotch; sailors dance with girls in a cabaret but ogle one another; in some still lifes, the flowers and vegetables acquire a nudging suggestiveness. Sigmund Freud was so much spoken of in this milieu that, Writer Susan Glaspell complained, "you could not go out to buy a bun without hearing of someone's complex...
Adams House will open its Explosives B Cabaret tomorrow with the showing of two European shorts...
...complete name--Explosives B Cabaret Telly Lounge & Cafe Gluttony Video Institute--comes from the name of a pocket theater which Peter Sellars '80 created in the same room nine years ago. Sellars, who has since directed for the National Theater in Washington, originally named the room the Explosives B Cabaret after a sign he found on a Colorado roadside, now inlaid in the door...
...Cabaret has to compete not only with the memory of its first production, which won eight Tony Awards, but with Bob Fosse's 1972 film adaptation, which many critics rank as perhaps the best movie musical of all time. Hal Prince's fluid, expressionistic staging has been so widely imitated that even its slyest devices seem cliched. Although the show's political anthems and music- hall satires throb with emotion, its love ballads are mostly lame -- a weakness that has been heightened by Joe Masteroff's miscalculated rewrite of his own book. Clifford (Gregg Edelman), the American novelist who arrives...
...show overleaps these obstacles to deliver entertainment of shocking power and perverse pleasure. Where Anything Goes laughs off the financial turbulence of the early 1930s -- its plot involves a stock-market mistake that engenders a fortune -- Cabaret dwells on the ugliness brought out by that era's economic panic. Neighbors turn into enemies. A hymnlike melody subtly alters into a fascist anthem. Leering and strutting and cackling over all is Joel Grey, reprising the performance that won him a Tony and an Oscar, as the emcee luring visitors into a nightclub -- and a nation -- succumbing to political insanity. At these...