Word: cabaret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only slowdown in London comes in musicals. The handful of creators who, in various permutations, have brought forth Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and the like have nothing new or imminent. Still, an irresistibly energetic and shamelessly folksy overgrown cabaret show, Five Guys Named Moe, featuring jazz of the 1930s and '40s and nonstop dancing by an all-black cast, has taken London by storm. It is headed for Broadway next April, complete with group singing of calypso bebop and a whole-audience conga line at intermission...
...Harvard what is one moment a slovenly dining hall may metamorphose into an elegant cabaret theater the next. Fanatics of Stephen Sondheim's tunes are fortunate that one such transformation occurs in the Dunster House Dining Hall--tables gain placemats and food service workers become tuxedo-clad waiters serving nachos and salsa gratis...
Included in the cabaret is "More," a number originally sung by Madonna in the film Dick Tracy and here performed with energetic vibrancy by Alexis Toomer. The Material Girl has been outdone by Toomer, whose precise timing of vocal delivery combines with just the right amount of flirtatious mischief...
...overall structure of the Sondheim cabaret is rather bland. After each song, the house lights dim until the players move in place on stage for the next number. Some variation in the almost 20 transitions would have been welcome...
Harvard Coffeehouse Cabaret Producer, Director; Crimson Key Society Secretary; Leverett House Art Society President, Treasurer; Harvard Model Congress Chair; Harvard Model Senate President...