Word: cabaret
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Halfway through the first-ever Harvard Cabaret, the lights went up. One by one, poets Eddie Bruce '02, Peter-Charles Bright '01 and Marco Garrido '00 rose in their seats, presenting their offerings for the evening. Like the invocations that kicked off the show, these offerings, varied in content, seemed symbolic in their delivery: the poets stood up to give something from their communities to the arts community. The Adams Pool Theater was packed; the audience flowed from seat to floor all the way to wherever standing room could be found at the back. Whatever was happening in this small...
...Cabaret seemed to include almost everything, from two thousand year old Hindu dance to old-school breakdancing, but it never felt like a simple variety show. There seemed to be an understanding that this was no random display of talent. This is part of what we are, this is what we do, all seemed to say, from "hardcore jazz" trio Triple Threat (Jon Natchez '99, Adam Schneit '98 and Ben Herson) to dazzling drag queen MsBegotten (Sasha Badian...
...authors mentioned the popular animation that has been circulating on the Internet "with the cabaret-singing alien doing I Will Survive who gets killed by a falling disco ball." This film is called Alien Song and was created by Victor Navone. While working as an artist at a San Diego game company, he made it on his home computer with a $300 software package called Animation:Master by a little company called Hash Inc. Alien Song has been so popular that Navone gets hundreds of e-mails and many job offers. He now works as an animator at Pixar, maker...
...form that's blossoming on the Net: sudden narrative. Like the early experiments in film, sudden narratives consist of quick visual bites that are perfect for today's limited technology and attention spans. Twenty-second-long cartoons--like those on Doodie.com or the one with the cabaret-singing alien doing I Will Survive who gets killed by a falling disco ball--now get e-mailed around the way Seinfeld jokes were once exchanged at the water cooler...
Director Karin Coonrod must be given credit for taming this tornado of a play. Performed as part of the A.R.T.'s CrossCurrents initiative, an ongoing attempt to "create and sustain a body of new music theatre works," The Idiots Karamazov intersperses cabaret-style singing with its mad dash through practically all the Western fiction and drama worth reading. But an experiment in Brechtian musical theater this is not. With love ballads about the loss of Christian morality that come across as even more depressing than Tom Stoppard's musings in Jumpers and show-stoppers about the benefits of being...