Word: cabareting
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...truism that all too often, the moment a skill or art is mastered, either it is out of date or the practitioners have lost conviction. So it seems with that great American institution, the musical-A Chorus Line notwithstanding. That is what makes this cabaret selection of Leonard Bernstein's theater songs - or rather those tossed out of such shows as Candide, On the Town, Wonderful Town and West Side Story - a bittersweet delight. Less than topnotch though they are, the songs brim with confidence and fun. So does the patter, which harks back to the days when sophistication...
...vita turned really dolce for Marisa in 1971, when Luchino Visconti signed her for her first film as the elegant young mother in Death in Venice. Bob Fosse then hired her to play the German-Jewish department store heiress in Cabaret. Both parts required Marisa to appear both remote and vulnerable. She is very good...
...Calvin Coolidge Follies A musical comedy revue about the career of our illustrious 30th President. At the Charles Playhouse Cabaret, 74 Warrenton Street. Performances Thursday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday...
...about that. You just have to do what you want to do; I don't know what the audiences want of what works. West Side Story certainly doesn't look to me like anything that would have worked, and at the time we did it nobody thought it would. Cabaret: certainly the same thing. There was such a sense of "You're not serious! You're going to bring a bunch of Nazis on stage and do that!" Well, we did it. So I'm encouraged that there's an audience for this show...
...number of shows have not made much at all. Follies of course didn't make any money--it lost every cent put into it. Company only made 5-10% profit. See what I'm getting at? The loss of Follies far outweighs the gains of shows like Fiddler and Cabaret...