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...show that sealed Fosse's reputation as the most gifted musical-comedy director of his generation. Not bad for a self-doubting perfectionist who, even though he was the only person ever to win an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy in the same season (in 1973, for Cabaret, Pippin and Liza with a "Z"), never quite managed to shake off the nagging suspicion that he was merely a purveyor of glitzy trash...
...sure, a few contemporary dance directors are doing compelling work. Rob Marshall's sardonic numbers in Cabaret are proof of that. But far more revealing was the failure of the latest revival of On the Town, which closed this week after just 65 performances. It says everything about the current state of dance on Broadway that one of the great dance shows of the '40s (and, ironically, Robbins' very first musical) should be sunk a half-century later by the lackluster choreography of Broadway neophyte Keith Young. No less illustrative of the dearth of fresh blood is the fact that...
...CABARET Remember when Joel Grey was considered seedy? Alan Cumming gave Grey's Wilkommen a sinister new twist as the androgynous emcee; Natasha Richardson embodied a defiantly deglamorized Sally Bowles; and British director Sam Mendes made the terrific Kander and Ebb musical even more terrific...
Lots of his sort have been interloping lately. Jennifer Jason Leigh is playing Sally Bowles in the acclaimed Broadway revival of Cabaret. Nicole Kidman is about to take the town by storm in David Hare's The Blue Room. Christian Slater, Toni Braxton and Holly Hunter are among the other film and recording stars currently giving Broadway a whirl...
Whalen performed, with typical perfection, generally swanky-sounding lounge pieces. The highlight of these was "Danny Diamond," a song about a transvestite cabaret performer who was exposed and murdered, in which Whalen wraps haunting tones around the sliding guitar rhythms and creaky trumpet riffs...