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...true love was his second wife, Dolly Haas. Dorothy Louise Clara Haas was born, in 1910, in Hamburg to a German mother and an English bookseller father. As a teenager she appeared in "The Mikado," "The Merry Widow," Wedekind's "Franziska" and a Max Reinhardt spectacle. In theater or cabaret, the redheaded "flapper" was a beguiling presence. By the age of 20 Haas was starring in an Ufa movie with her own name in the title ("Dolly Gets Ahead"). From 1930 to '35 she played the worldly waif, the child-woman, in about 18 German films, many for writers (Billy...
Fleurs de Sang, with actor/writer/director Myriam Mézières in person. The film features Mézières as a bohemian cabaret performer attempting to elevate herself and her daughter from the dregs of society. French with English subtitles. Friday, Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. Tickets $7, $5 students and seniors. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy...
Hollywood is realizing that audiences didn't tire of musicals. They tired of bad musicals. When good ones came along--Cabaret in 1972 and Grease in 1978--audiences proved more than willing. While Chicago doesn't have the stylistic daring of Moulin Rouge, it is a crowd-pleasing reimagining of a show that is kept current by its up-to-the-minute cynicism, its skewering of the media and its heroines' obsession with stardom...
...wanted some way to respond to the class with sound, but you can only go so far without it becoming a bit gimmicky,” Daniel said. The talk was bolstered by listening to the duo’s favorite recordings, which ranged from former Cabaret Voltaire member Chris Watson’s work as a BBC nature recording engineer to composer Pierre Henry’s “Variations for a Door and a Sigh,” a 45-minute work made from the creak of a door and a gasp...
...There is nothing better for theater than cross-pollination,” said Joy B. Fairfield ’03, an HRDC member who directed Cabaret. “This [change] is very actor-centric...