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GRANDCHILD OF KINGS. Hal Prince proved himself a genius of high-gloss staging in such musical extravaganzas as Cabaret and The Phantom of the Opera. Now his awesome talents, and a cast of 27, are employed in an exuberant, emotionally rich yet intimate off-Broadway retelling of Sean O'Casey's Dublin memoirs...
...what misunderstandings it has produced. Chief among these is the idea of Lautrec as a cross between isolated genius and man of the people, whose deformity (and the sense of outsidership it fostered) resonated with his marginal subjects -- the whores, dancers, cabaret singers, the proletariat in search of cheap lurid pleasure, in sum the Montmartre demimonde -- to produce a truly "compassionate" art. This is largely a sentimental fiction, as Thomson argues in detail in the show's excellent catalog...
...this show makes clear, the high point of Lautrec's art is not the cabaret scenes, bursting with character and morose, raucous appetite, so much as the late brothel pictures, which fluctuate with such marvelous ambiguity between desire and repulsion, between the sentimental and the caricatural, while preserving (for the most part) a strict and innately aristocratic ( distance. One side of Lautrec was a goatish, little skeptic who regarded sex as a semiexcretory function -- "To make love," he once said, "it doesn't matter what you're with -- anything will do." The other side was extremely tender, and it comes...
CityStep Fifth Annual Cabaret--willfeature the Harvard Din and Tonics, the RadcliffePitches, Onyx, Alexis Toomer, Barak Marshall andOn Thin Ice. Lowell House Dining room, 8 p.m. $7general; $5 for students. Tickets are available atthe Ho lyoke Center Ticket Office...
...lives over the next few years. Among them: an Indian immigrant working in New York City while his wife and newborn son remained home in a world increasingly unfamiliar to him; and pregnant Indian women who contemplated abortion of female fetuses because their society prizes sons over daughters. India Cabaret, a hard-eyed look at a group of Bombay strippers, won the American Film Festival award for the best documentary...