Word: cabareting
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...CABARET utilizes expressionistic techniques to re-create the frenzied, bitter gaiety of prewar Berlin. While its framing is brilliantly brassy, its moods strikingly defined, the subject matter of the book is dull and amorphous...
Pasty-faced and crater-eyed, behind his boldly rouged cheeks, the lone figure onstage when the footlights go up on Broadway's hit musical, Cabaret, is a garish apparition indeed. He twists his scarlet mouth into an obsequious leer as he whines the lyrics of Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome. The character has no name, no dialogue. But in Joel Grey's insinuating performance, the sleazy, empty-souled, fanny-grabbing emcee of Berlin's Kit Kat Klub is not only the glue that holds the musical together but also the embodiment of a nation's depravity during...
Take a Chance. Still baby-faced under his makeup at 34, Grey looks knowingly at Cabaret's world. "I've been there," he says. Son of a successful vaudevillian named Mickey Katz, Joel clicked with a cabaret routine while still in high school in California. In his teens he was a headliner at such high-priced playrooms as New York's Copacabana, Miami's Fontainebleau, Hollywood's Mocambo, and the London Palladium. "At that time," he recalls, "I would do almost anything to find a niche for myself. I had a bleeding ulcer...
...nothing to do, he did everything: TV, movies, summer stock, revues, nightclubs. He landed the lead as a replacement in two Broadway shows (Stop the World, Half a Sixpence), but he was still a crucial step away from the ideal niche. When ProducerDirector Harold Prince came after him for Cabaret, he succumbed instantly. "Everyone thought it was a very chancy show," he says, "but I knew I wanted to take the gamble. The tawdriness and decadence of cafe life is something I know...
...joined the chorus line, became the mistress of famed Architect Stanford White (Pennsylvania Station), and later married a weak-minded millionaire playboy named Harry K. Thaw-whom she goaded with lurid tales of her escapades with White. On June 25, 1906, Thaw walked up to White in a cabaret, and without a word put three bullets in his head-whereupon Evelyn went to her husband's defense, helped get him acquitted on grounds of insanity. Thaw spent 15 years in and out of asylums and eventually divorced Evelyn. When he died in 1947, he left...