Word: cabareting
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...golden years of his half-century career have been the past decade, when he has designed all of Hal Prince's musicals from Cabaret to Pacific Overtures. To see his work is like seeing the graph of a sensitive mind in motion. His perception of Company: "Movement in New York is vertical, horizontal, angular, never casual. In Versailles, you bow; in New York, you dodge cabs. Finally, I conceived a set that was basically a gymnasium for acting...
Fans and Prints. When Prince was planning Cabaret in 1966, he told Aronson that he saw similarities between what was happening in Germany in the immediate pre-Hitler era and what was happening in the U.S. Boris asked himself: " 'How do I convey this comparison to an audience?' It occurred to me to hang a huge mirror tilted on the stage which reflected the audience. It said, 'Look at yourselves...
...speeches and visited local officials. Next morning he was host at an annual hunt for foreign diplomats at the former royal lodge of Karadjordjevo. He spurned the pursuit of pheasant for bigger game and bagged three bighorn sheep. He returned from the hunt for dinner and entertainment at a cabaret that lasted until the early hours. Two days later he flew to Brioni Island, where he entertained Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk at a sumptuous dinner...
...style produces a constant interplay between the melancholic and the light comic in Germany's rich musical tradition. Death, in the shabby uniform of a Central European functionary, could be a sadly tired Wotan. The Emperor's edicts are sung in the piercing soprano of the German cabaret...
...resembles another expressionist work, Kurt Weill's Seven Deadly Sins, but it goes beyond Weill's elegant cynicism. The final chorale, describing death as part of life's "delight and woe," is sung to A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, while the orchestra counters with a cabaret tune of incredibly sweet pathos. From this juxtaposition emerges a requiem for a civilization literally going up in smoke, but the hymn's chords reassert the promise of redemptive life...