Word: cabarete
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...Brian Stokes Mitchell hasn?t got this message. The Broadway leading man is making his cabaret debut at Feinstein?s at the Regency (a night club in one of Manhattan?s swanker hotels), and, the poor sap, he wants to please us. His show, a three-week tribute to Valentine's Day emotions, is called ?Love / Life? - which, unless you take the / as a slash (?Love Slashes Life?), couldn?t be sunnier. His advice is to ?Live and laugh and dream.? His mission, he tells the audience, is to send us out ?feeling a little bit better than when...
...enters, maneuvering in the narrow space between the small dinner tables with the running-back grace of a Gale Sayers. He?s as tall as you?d expect (6ft.1) but much slimmer, in a dark, pin-striped suit, pink shirt, rose-colored tie. He announces his list of cabaret don?ts and dos: ?1. Don?t suck. 2. Do it as if you were entertaining in your living room.? Stokes? sucklessness ia a given; and the only format here is informality. It?s as if we?re in the shank of a swank dinner party, and one of the guests...
...Because right now, the 27-year-old actor has hands like a girl - 2-cm-long nails brightly buffed and filed to an elegant curve. Ejiofor has just come from rehearsals for his latest project, The Kinky Boot Factory, a comedy in which he plays Lola, a sassy transvestite cabaret star. Press-on nails, his makeup team tell him, snap too easily, so Ejiofor's grown his own, acquiring some useful expertise in applying cosmetics in the process. "I've learned that wet nail polish gets everywhere," he says. "And you should always do your eye makeup first." This stage...
...absurdity" of watching embedded journalists broadcast live from the middle of a war, came up with American Idiot, the deceptively upbeat title track that proclaimed, "Don't want to be an American Idiot/ Don't want a nation under the new mania." Then Dirnt composed a strange 30-sec. cabaret ditty, which Armstrong and Cool liked so much that they wrote their own 30-sec. additions. Soon they had the beginnings of the 9-min., five-part Jesus of Suburbia, which introduced both Jesus, a character struggling against the country's "red-neck agenda," and the possibility of a full...
...bored with the music if it didn’t measure up to other rock shows one had been to? Or perhaps the context was a key part of the performance, and one should search for the irony in an artist transforming a gallery into a cabaret...