Word: cabaret
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...year it certainly isn't is 1993. In this season of multitudinous musical revivals, even the upcoming "new" musicals derive from the dear dead past. A Grand Night for Singing is a cabaret collage of the 1943-to-1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook. The Red Shoes is so closely based on the 1948 ballet film that it uses footage from it as the basis of TV ads. Cyrano the Musical, an import from Amsterdam, retells a much told romance, written in the 19th century and set in the 17th. Disney's Beauty and the Beast will transpose to the stage...
...Cabaret. Andy Baer Quartet. Upstairs atthe Pudding, 10 Holyoke St., Cambridge. 8 p.m.$10. Call 864-1933 for information andreservations...
Briggs recalls the Leverett House Cabaret, on which she worked last year. "We built a huge bridge, nine feet high and six feet wide, that the dancers were supposed to dance on." She says the dancers were scared to death to cross the bridge, but the techies' work held up throughout the show...
When she got back to Harvard, Toomer again didn't see much that excited her, but, by this time, she had found her niche. She sang in the Sondheim Cabaret, starred in a spring production of "Dreamgirls" (working with Forbes was "really exciting") and, of primary importance, met Benjamin F. Waltzer '93, who had recently transferred to Harvard from a joint program with Tufts and the New England Conservatory...
Waltzer is a talented jazz pianist whom she met in the CityStep Cabaret her junior year. The two have been working together ever since, with Waltzer helping Toomer develop her talents as a jazz singer...