Word: cabaret
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...town for their 40th reunion, the Class of 1968 celebrated Saturday evening in the same fashion they have for 25 years: an evening cabaret show featuring performances by fellow classmates...
...called it "a Disney World dinner," since Flo seems to think going to Disney World costs $6,000. Then we went outside and made lots of calls to one another about which gas station we were going to stop at on the way to Diamonds Cabaret, a gentlemen's club, where we would tip the entertainers 5,000 $1 bills that we had brought in a leather satchel. I got in the Bentley while Flo lay down in the backseat and began one of those phone discussions I knew too well from my 20s; it started out about nothing...
...Later, with the help of a wig, heels and a handbag, she became real. Black and white alike loved the subversion. Then, in 1996, Uys took over a derelict railway station in Darling, a semidesert town an hour's drive north of Cape Town, and turned it into a cabaret called Evita Se Perron...
...cabaret's reputation grew, so did Darling's. Spurred by its newfound fame, in 2004 Darling created a highly unusual arts festival, Voorkamerfest. Every summer, townsfolk open up their homes and turn their front rooms into stages for musicians, dancers, actors and poets from around the world. The acts are limited to a strict half hour. Audiences are ferried between them in minibuses, which take different and unannounced routes, so the acts you see are pot luck...
...school, Hill became serious about musical theater. Under the guidance of James Thornton, the chair of the Shaker Heights High School’s Theatre Arts Department, Hill worked to develop self-awareness for physical theater and movement on stage and, for his senior project, staged a one-man cabaret. “Doing your own cabaret is one of the hardest things,” Hill says, comparing performing in musicals to performing in a cabaret. “There’s no one else but you. You engage with the audience—shape a whole evening...