Word: cabaret
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Cozzens said Cabaret, this season’s Mainstage musical, had close to 50 percent of its parts, including several lead roles, played by non-Harvard undergraduates. Limiting their participation, he said, would be a form of community building...
Opportunities beyond the VES department are scarce. On the Office for the Arts bulletin in Loker Commons, there are fliers for the newest Bach Society concert, elaborate posters for the Krokodiloes fall show, and provocative pictures advertising Cabaret. Yet, not a single slip of paper mentioned the visual arts. Even the arts section of The Crimson rarely features the visual arts, and the Advocate, which features art prominently, is published only four times a year...
Sexiest physical trait: Come to Cabaret this weekend and find out (’cause I’m half naked...
...characters of Cabaret struggle with their present in light of a troubled future. It is only appropriate, then, that directors Sabrina K. Blum ’03 and Joy B. Fairfield ’03 would struggle with elements of time as well. Cabaret first debuted on Broadway in 1966, was reincarnated as a movie in 1972, and revived on Broadway by director Sam Mendes in 1998. With a loyal fan base, Cabaret challenged Blum and Fairfield to find their own creative voice while avoiding an alienation of Cabaret devotees who might view change as betrayal...
...central story of Cabaret follows the romance between Cliff Bradshaw, an American writer in Berlin, and Sally Bowles, a mysterious dancer from the club. At the same time, a powerful subplot involves the more mundane “aging spinster”—Fraülein Schneider—and her lodger/boyfriend—Herr Schultz. Blum and Fairfield reworked specific scenes to keep Bradshaw active and central in the play, not allowing him to become overshadowed by the richly developed subplot. “We rewrote [an] entire song to make Cliff cooler...