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Initially, "Strangers on Earth," by Mark O'Donnell, has the air of a cabaret or a nightclub. Each of its opening scenes is independently very funny, but is unconnected to the rest. The play threatens to remain disjointed throughout--fortunately, it becomes more cohesive as its characters begin to interact. "Strangers On Earth" is about five people; each is introduced alone, each in a scene with a clever twist...
CHORUS GIRLS TWIRL AROUND IN HEADdresses a la Busby Berkeley. Gymnasts flex, and one inverts himself into a handstand minutes long. A busty blond croons a pop tune. Then Nazi soldiers march in. No, it's not Broadway's Cabaret, but an even more genuine article, staged by Berlin's Theater des Westens to depict how Hitler's regime fused popular culture and propaganda. BERLIN CABARET, at Washington's Kennedy Center through this week, is gloriously mounted if scantily plotted. Its showy numbers evoke radio, pop music and the 1936 Olympics but focus on the movies, especially as seen...
...them, in dollar terms) producing musicals of high tech, high technique and high seriousness -- Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera and Cats. He was just out for a night on the town with friends in Britain when he saw a jumping, jiving cabaret revue. It could not have been further from Mackintosh's customary taste. He favors life-and-death storytelling; Five Guys Named Moe is a wisp of a tale about a drunken lowlife cleaning up his act and winning back his lady love with the help of five hipsters who materialize out of his radio...
...Saturday, Mather residents enjoyed a German cabaret, a special dinner and a party. The carnival, rained out on Saturday and rescheduled for yesterday, was the only event attended by children from the Mather Hand program...
Kirkland--Had a Cabaret this year. And a musical. Couldn't be all that...