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Orchard characterized the space as "intimate...along the lines of a cabaret space...
Then came the restlessness. "It was the era of the girl groups," Stoller says. "The focus of songs was getting younger and younger. We decided to try to write in a different vein." Is That All There Is?, recorded by Peggy Lee in 1969, was the kind of arty cabaret song they meant. They wrote for the theater but weren't taken seriously. After the runaway success of Smokey Joe's, they're reworking two book musicals they wrote at that time...
...really enjoyed my preview of retirement life. There's a pool tournament, cabaret night, constant gin rummy games and lots of hanging out with friends in the steam room. I've eaten sliced bagel chips just inches from Soupy Sales and Fyvush Finkel. And I've smelled Buddy Hackett...
...Although organizers Alex Kellogg '00, James Wilson '00 and Franklin Leonard '00 are not planning a follow-up themselves, they see their Cabaret as part of a wave of experimental projects appearing this spring (including Troilus and Cressida this weekend and an upcoming showcase put together by Benjamin Novak '01) and are quick to point out that, while the Cabaret was unique, it is not the only collision of art forms to occur at Harvard, past or future. "The talent pool is just too deep for these things to have to stop for any good reason (save entryway tutors crying...
...Experimental rock improv band The Magic Number has been seen alongside other bands at various campus venues (including the Advocate, which sponsored the Cabaret along with the Signet Society, the Association of Black Harvard Women and the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance), but created one of the most striking pieces of the evening in a unique performance with improvisational dancer Jessica Kaye '00 and poets Janel Moore '00 and Wilson. Improvisation was central to many performances, including breakdancers Tri Phuong '02 and Chhay Chhun '02, the sometimes bewildered and bewildering stand-up comic Anwar Floyd Pruitt...