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LEGAL SEAFOODS. Inman Sq. Preposition Cabaret...
LAUGHING ALLEY 592 Comm. Ave. Pocket Mine Circus Thurs.-Sat. at 8:30. LEGAL SEAFOODS. Inman Sq. Proposition Cabaret...
LEGAL SEAFOODS. (Inman Sq.) Proposition Cabaret...
...Vereen plays him, the M.C. is a kind of failed Mephistopheles, a combination of Joel Grey's decadent host in Cabaret and vaudeville's old-fashioned song-and-dance man. His eyes dance, roll, and turn somersaults in an amused self-parody, but they are too bright to be decadent and too playful to be evil. He tries to tempt and waylay Pippin, the show's Candide-like hero, but it is obvious that he is having too much fun to take the devil business seriously. "It began as a very small part," says Pippin...
...need not concern us, and Charlemagne, played with bluff joviality by Eric Berry, is only nominally Pippin's father. The prince's and the show's true parents are three other musicals: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!, Oh, What a Lovely War! and Cabaret. From Stop the World come the circusy atmosphere and the little-everyman-lost sentiments. From Lovely War comes the mood of ironic incongruity in which some people are dying while others are dancing, each group visible and oblivious to the other. It is a form of double vision. The sight...