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...only opening that has a hope of making Cambridge a permanently classier town is that of the Harvard Cabaret. Cosponsored by the Dunster House Drama Society and the Currier House Committee, the Cabaret will perform Chris Durang's "The Nature and Purpose of the Universe" for its premiere. Durang graduated last June, having gained notoriety, admittance to Yale Drama School and near-excommunication for his "The Greatest Musical Ever Sung" produced in Dunster House a year ago. In his latest work, he shifts his focus from the Bible to a Weehawken, New Jersey housewife but continues to court Papal revenge...
...SIGNIFICANCE of the Harvard Cabaret's inaugural lies in its proposal to go beyond this weekend and this month to become a permanent center for live entertainment. Producers Vic Budnick, a first-year student at the Law School who did drama work as an undergraduate at Yale, and Al Franken '73--the man behind Nixon!--are looking for material and talent to carry the Cabaret through its initial Spring season. Next weekend will have a musical retrospective with piano and clarinet on the work of Cole Porter. Between shows there will be music and, if a way is found...
ASSOCIATE Editor Gerald Clarke picked up his phone one day last week and found Liza Minnelli on the line with a surprising question. Why, she asked, had he missed the previous evening's première of her film, Cabaret? His excuse, Clarke assured her, was entirely legitimate: he had been busy most of the night writing a cover story about her for this week's issue...
Today, a few weeks shy of 26, Liza has evolved in her own right into a new Miss Show Biz, a dazzlingly assured and completely rounded performer. The Justice Department should investigate her. She is a mini-conglomerate, an entertainment monopoly. In the new movie musical Cabaret, the full range of Liza's singing, dancing and acting talents dominates and steals a rambling and disorganized show (TIME, Feb. 21). As Sally Bowles, she is supposed to be a third-rate singer in a second-rate dive, belting out tunes to pay for schnapps and cigarettes. But as soon...
...musical numbers by John Kander and Fred Ebb are diluted Kurt Weill and far too numerous. The actors, how ever, are all good. Along with a chorus of sclerotic voluptuaries, Joel Grey as the Kit Kat M.C. puts the cabaret acts across with captivating vulgarity...