Word: cabaret
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...there was an extremely wide range of vocal styles and abilities. Laura Bewig and Emmanuel Cadet shone as the star-crossed Jenny and Jimmy, and both possessed exquisite, classically trained voices. Most of the other singers diverged somewhat from the operatic ideal; some, such as Valerie Eaton and her cabaret-style croonings, fit marvelously with the music, while other sounds, such as Eric Aubin's rock and roll affectations, seemed out of place in Mahagonny. Craig Hanson, Paul Lincoln (Bank-Account Bill), Bob Grady, Kirk Bangstad, and the women's chorus were all quite strong, but the men's chorus...
POST-CAROLINA ANTHEM? Tomorrow Belongs to Me John Kander and Fred Ebb from the 1966 musical Cabaret...
...times you can do The Sound of Music," McConnell says. "At the festival we show how to develop a successful musical without the Broadway imprimatur." Last year Alliance theaters mounted 44 productions of new musicals. "The only hope of getting something done on Broadway," says veteran librettist Joe Masteroff (Cabaret, She Loves Me), "is to have it produced first in regional theaters. The festival is a chance to have all the regional people see it at once...
Faithfull presents two sides of herself in her two act show Don't Smoke in Bed! Act One is a cabaret in which she performs songs by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, accompanied by Paul Trueblood on piano. Faithfull initially had to struggle with the Kurt Weill Institute for permission to sing his songs. This obstacle seems ironic--for much publicized bouts with despair and heartache, not to mention drugs, make her a perfectly cast character...
This week, 30 years after they chucked the teen format to write cabaret songs for the cognoscenti, these two troublemakers are On Broadway (another number they helped write). Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller is a gaudy, exuberant concert of 40 or so prime L&S tunes, directed at stock-car speed by Jerry Zaks and sold with foot-in-the-door showmanship by a cast of five guys and four gals. The evening serves as a celebration-of what L&S did and what Broadway, when it gets the spark, can still...