Word: cabaret
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...peach and cobalt glow. As twilight approaches, the dancer’s bending shadows are cast on the church’s stone walls. The audience seated in an intimate three-tier platform directly in front of the dancers challenges the traditional distance between performer and viewer. Cabaret-like tables pepper the tiers. Reminiscent of smoke-filled clubs, the Weimar republic and Marlene Dietrich, Mateo says the tables allow the audience “to see the choreography from some unconventional angles.” And there is something irresistibly irreverent about sipping martinis in a church...
...needs new? Of the 16 musicals now playing in midtown Manhattan theaters, three are set in the 1920s ("Cabaret," "Chicago, "Thoroughly Modern Millie"), three in the 1930s ("42nd Street," "Oklahoma!", "The Boys from Syracuse"), and three, mon Dieu!, in 18th or 19th century France ("Beauty and the Beast," "Les Mis?rables," "The Phantom of the Opera"). Broadway tourists can visit ancient Egypt ("Aida) or Fairy Tale Land ("Into the Woods"). But it's tough to find either a musical that takes place in the here and now - "Urinetown" is a city of the future that looks like Pittsburgh in the Depression...
...creative and dissolute chaos of Berlin during the Weimar Republic. Beckmann's drypoint sketches from the 1920s could be every bit as biting and cynical as those of the more overtly political George Grosz. But he had a magisterial distance few others could match. Included among the cabaret artists and chimneysweeps in his 1922 Berlin Voyage series, for instance, are two drawings, each titled The Disenchanted (numbered I and II). One shows well-dressed and bitter burghers with the nationalistic newspaper Die Zeitung; the second shows socialists yawning over a call to rise up from Spartacist leader Karl Liebknecht...
Musical lovers have much to write home about with the most anticipated show of the season, Cabaret, on the Loeb Mainstage from Nov. 15-23, directed by Joy Fairfield ’03 and Sabrina Blum ’03. Even for those who saw the Broadway revival 14 times, it will still be worth skipping the Nov. 15 opening of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to make a trip to period Berlin and party with the debaucherous denizens of everyone’s favorite nightclub. Expect a re-imagined production and an immensely talented, gorgeous cast...
...Catch Cabaret on its second weekend, however, in order to see Side Man in the Ex Nov. 9-16, produced by Alex Kanter ’05. If you’ve ever wondered about those cool cats responsible for making Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood” the most overplayed high school jazz band song, seeing Side Man is a no-brainer. Warren Leight’s play is a touching look at the effects of the erosion of big-band jazz on its quirky performers. Even if you were beat...