Word: cabaret
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...such place popular with runaways, girls pay $2 for unlimited access to free sandwiches, juice and karaoke. Male customers pay $30 to make a "match"?a no-strings date?which the girls are free to refuse. At the more lurid end are a dizzying range of brothels called health, cabaret or image clubs. Many market their staff as minors. A Kabuki-cho club made famous by a fire that ravaged its building in September advertised uniformed schoolgirls and was called Super Loose?in reference to the girls' baggy socks...
...audience enters the black box theater and discovers it filled with fog. A couple of large, industrial-looking contraptions sit on the floor. These structures, which vaguely resemble natural forms, and throughout the performance will morph into laboratories and cabaret-club walls, are lit from the inside with ghostly colored lights. The audience can’t make sense of any of it, but knows they are somewhere else...
...think it would have to be an all-night cabaret...
...Tony and the Pulitzer. The show’s original award-winning star, Mary-Louise Parker, was scheduled to leave, and I had little interest in seeing her replacement, Jennifer Jason Leigh, a talented film actress who seemed lost on stage in Sam Mendes’ gripping revival of Cabaret. And so, determined to see the show, I embarked into the city without a ticket, and with the knowledge that the show was sold out. I got there early enough to stand on the line for standing-room only tickets… well, apparently, not early enough, because they sold...
...star as Harold Hill. Ah, theater in a barn—yep, it was summer stock—and it was pretty good. Despite the heat and the rain, the young performers were quite appealing and, wow, are they worked hard. After the show, they put on a cabaret performance, as they routinely do, before ending the night and getting up early the next morning to rehearse their next production. Some impressive talent in that show, not the least of which can be found singing in the halls of Currier House this year...