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...Cabaret...
Feminist comedian Kate Clinton takes over Sanders Theater this Saturday with a concert to benefit the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. Clinton, who has sold out shows at Boston's Club Cabaret and at the Great American Music Hall, is known for her whyscracks and political satire...
THERE are also many viable theater options outside of the theater district. One unique show that also features tables and cocktail service is Forbidden Broadway, a cabaret-style, musical spoof shown in the Terrace Room, a function room turned theater at the Park Plaza Hotel (Arlington stop on the Green Line, 357-8384). The show, now in its fifth year, is revised every season to incorporate newer material, such as the current spoof of the hit Les Miserables. The musical director for the show is veteran Hasty Pudding Theatricals composer David Chase '86. There are no student discount tickets...
...long ago, bored Soviet audiences found little of interest to watch but the evening news, an occasional "world of nature" documentary or the mildly spicy cabaret programs and quiz shows. Nor was late-night TV suitable for a working class that had to rise early to go out and build the permanent revolution. In the words of Estonian journalist Urmas Ott, state-controlled Central Television was like "preserved food: perfectly round and sealed, so that nothing spoiled, nothing changed, and nothing was very interesting...
Brown learned to adapt her light, irreverent British sensibility to the New World. "Americans want real information, substance, something solid," she observes. The result was what she calls an "intellectual cabaret" -- a saucy, literate celebrity magazine featuring profiles of Hollywood stars, aristocrats and parvenus, ballasted with some weightier and newsier pieces. Her philosophy of journalism as voyeurism seems to have worked. Since her arrival, circulation has ballooned from 259,753 to 595,844, and advertising pages have more than tripled...