Word: cabaret
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...production that affirms the wide creative possibilities of musical theater. Drawing upon the works of young writers facing a dizzying array of both comical and serious issues, Swados and her team of student actors, musicians, producers and designers have converted these pieces poetry and prose into a highly effective cabaret format...
...described by co-producer Elena Jacobson '99, Cantata 2000 is performed cabaret style with no single plot strand and consists of about 35 different songs of various musical styles, moods and words. Issues dealt with in the show include bisexuality, AIDS and the identity struggle of "Generation X." Next to these serious issues the show places more comical matters to "reflect the conflicting nature of the turn of the millenium," Jacobson says...
...most interested in the many stories of inspiring derring-do, as well as cautionary tales of derring-don't--the weight of which tends to suggest that they don't make fabulous spies, or spy catchers, the way they used to. For instance, Josephine Baker, the storied American cabaret star who made her home in Paris, spied for the Allies during World War II. She slipped out of Vichy France with intelligence information written on her music in invisible ink and with photographs hidden in her clothes. In Belgium a group of women known as Dames Blanches seemed...
...vamps, it camps; it does Mozart and Sondheim, Gershwin and Strauss. What more, indeed, could Kate deLima need? Singlehandedly, she's taken over Harvard musical theater; one could hardly imagine a "Marriage of Figaro" or a "Fledermaus" getting off the ground without her. Not to mention a one-woman cabaret act, complete with schmaltz, Catskills-style patter, and a big band...
...museums pop up yearly, but never without a twist. What was once the Seattle Art Museum has recently transformed into the sparkling new Asian Art Museum, which has one of the best collections of Asian cultural artifacts in the U.S. A new form of theater, sort of a cabaret performance in which actors set up for a night in a bar or nightclub and mix their scenes with live music and audience participation, is becoming more and more popular as the city's hordes of twentysomethings desperately search for new places to channel their must-have-something...