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Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, at the Charles Cabaret under the Warrenton St. playhouse, is a collection of Brel songs. He's not in it, but he wrote it--which may be even better. Curtain at 3 and 9:30 p.m. Tickets...
Paul Rosenberg's piano accompaniment captures the proper honky tonk cabaret spirit, and the music is lively and friendly. If anyone feels about to die from reading period's caffeine irritability, the best antidote is a dose of the Viennese Coffee Song. Perfectly written by O'Donnell and David Thomas, perfectly directed by Doug Hughes and perfectly performed by Japes Emerson, Paul Redford and David Reiffel, the song is a rousing drinking tune beginning with coffee cups raised high in the air, and proceeding through late-night camaraderie ("We'll drink and then we'll stay up all night...
...attractive women in the traditional ao dai-a long, slit-skirted dress. In sharp contrast with Hanoi, where I found nearly everything in short supply, Saigon's peddlers hawk an abundance of goods, from government-sponsored lottery tickets to ceramic elephants and noodle soup. The 250-seat Rex Cabaret continues to operate, featuring some of the performers who once entertained American troops. On a recent evening, for example, Cathy Hue belted out her rendition of Granada to about a dozen tea-sipping Australian tourists...
...songs, the schism is complete. The vision is desolate, but Iggy sings with a knowing irony that rescues the lyrics from irrelevance. "Nightclubbing" manages to be ironic and sincere at once; the vacuous lyrics and monotonous melody, over an intriguing background of piano and synthesizer that creates a suitable cabaret mood, suggest self-ridicule and sorrow...
...turn the widow into a proletarian heroine. Their sheer companionship is helpful, especially since Frau Kusters' son and his pregnant wife flee to Finland to avoid the scandal, while her daughter uses all the sudden notoriety to try to further her tacky career as a cabaret artiste. But the party is not really interested in clearing the Kusters name, just in exploiting it as propaganda. Finally, Mother Kusters goes off with a building janitor, who offers not ideological support but home cooking and a sympathetic...