Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they receive only token laughs in this production. Markham O'Keefe and Jason Watkins as the Princes seem to have no idea what they're doing. This scene is only funny if the princes actually believe what they're saying. O'Keefe and Watkins treat it as a cabaret performance and sing the whole song facing front and rocking back and forth on their feet. A firmer directorial hand could have saved these scenes...
...backwater populated mainly by folk singers and people who performed preachy songs in funny voices into a booming business. Raffi has since retired from entertaining the peanut-butter-and-jelly crowd, but major record labels and musicians of every persuasion, from rock to reggae and from country to cabaret, have picked up on Raffi's riff...
Still, the clearest sign that kiddie music has arrived is the presence of performers like Little Richard, who are more familiar on the adult circuit. Cabaret singer Michael Feinstein recorded Pure Imagination, 19 children's songs from musicals and films. Last summer, Disney released Country Music for Kids, featuring Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Emmylou Harris and the Oak Ridge Boys. However they play it, this music isn't just kid stuff anymore...
Fortunately so, for I would have hated to squander the delights of Medea. Really brave of these Harvard thespians to tell a story about infanticide and make it into bravura cabaret. Rhythmic dancing heralded the beginning, sturdy men waddled onto stage with oh-so-low booming voices, and the dancers and performers artfully tripped over most of the set. Of course, there were the contemporary references of great import. You know the sort--men are shits, women are great, long live the individual. And then in the orgiastic confusion of the ending, Medea ascended in a spaceship, following a compelling...
...CABARET...