Word: cabaret
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...personal biographies as "old-hat, outdated and counterproductive," so Blossom Dearie, 82, the canary-voiced jazz and cabaret singer, preferred to talk about her future. Often that was her next gig. Her repertoire included songs for Schoolhouse Rock and standards like Dave Frishberg's "Peel Me a Grape...
...with the motto “You’ve Got a Lot to Live, and Pepsi’s Got a Lot to Give,” for instance, showed clips of a young man pole-vaulting over a high bar, between rapid-fire shots of marquee lights, cabaret scenes and PYT’s playing the electric guitar. America will continue to reach new heights, said Pepsi, and you kids can have a rollicking time along the way.The climate into which the retooled brand has now entered, however, is markedly different from where it has been before...
...Wong - had left their homeland with its crushing racial roadblocks, to find work and acclaim on the continent. But they were in the middle of their careers, and never matched their European eclat back home. Eartha was just starting hers. And in postwar America, the movies, Broadway and cabaret were more welcoming to black performers, especially ones with a touch of aristocratic or sexual exotica: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Eartha - not Keith - Kitt...
...under her spell and exploit her allure. Calling Kitt "the most exciting woman in the world," he cast her as Helen of Troy in a production of Faust that played in France, Belgium and Germany. Back in the States, she went on to make her mark in seven media - cabaret, Broadway, pop records, movies, TV, the concert stage and the best-seller charts - one at a time. From a stint at the Village Vanguard, she was cast in the Leonard Sillman revue New Faces of 1952 and given one of her signature songs, the bored-with-love "Monotonous...
...Kitt was most comfortable in her first home, the cabaret. At Manhattan's Cafe Carlyle, where she played regularly, she showed that, even in her 70s, her seductive charm was intact. (The proof is in her last recording, Eartha Kitt, Live at the Carlyle.) There she would vamp her way through the maze of tables, cozying up to a new generation of sugar daddies - or maybe the same old one - and singing her hits from a half-century before as if she were still the hot young sensation, still a kitten on the keys...