Word: cabareting
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...Love holds a special challenge, not just for its director, Dominic Champagne (who helmed the tent show Varekai and the sexy Vegas cabaret Zumanity), but for the company as a whole. Cirque's trademark is the creation of original artifacts; Love is the first one whose subject carries its own reverberations and weight, meaning and memories. Beatles songs do what Cirque directors do: tell stories, weave moods, conjure fictional worlds. People coming to Love bring their personal connections to the songs with which Champagne's interpretations must compete. His task is not just to devise a magical mise-en-scene...
...short-term solutions to their problems, they all go to a sex cabaret called Shortbus. Among the denizens are a courtly older gent, who bears a passing resemblance to a former bachelor mayor of New York, and the cabaret's host, real-life male diva Justin Bond. "It's just like the 60s," he says of the entanglement of bodies in the orgy room, "only with less hope." The search for connection might seem exclusively sexual, but to Justin it's all about style. He quotes one Lotus Weinstein as saying, "I used to want to change the world...
...Berlusconi scene for his actor-of-choice: himself. In a chilling finale, the bearded director recites some of Berlusconi's bitterest words as he heads to a courthouse showdown. How did he prepare for the part? Moretti says that too often Berlusconi's opponents focused on his "comic and cabaret" moments. "He's never made me laugh," says Moretti. "I wanted to emphasize the danger. Italy has got used to considering normal things that are simply unacceptable for a democracy." So when the onscreen director says "Action!" and Moretti steps into the shiny shoes and mirror-windowed...
...Anna C. Smith ’09) brought their “infectious attitudes” and a useless family painting to be appraised on the show, delivering the catchy tune, “Masterpiece.” Later, Kawaller and Smith opened the second act as foxy cabaret singers, offering refreshing vocal precision.The attractive set design (Kathleen E. Breeden ’09 and Sally H. Rinehart ’09) included Antiques Roadshow banners, a fancy living room, and a conventionally insipid backstage dressing room. The set for the red, decadent bar scene was especially attractive. With...
...relatively unnoticed for his work in “Love Actually,” and recently, “Inside Man.” As Lola, born Simon, he not only convincingly portrays a person struggling with his identity and the discrimination of others, but also, shines as a cabaret singer and ultimate performer...