Word: cabareting
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Many of the great chairs of the era were designed for cafes, only natural in an urban subculture of coffeehouse-and-cabaret cosmopolites. Adolf Loos' lithe, sensual sidechair for his Cafe Museum (1899) makes its Thonet bentwood forebears look dowdy by comparison. Loos' nemesis Hoffmann, though, was the absolute master of furniture and domestic objects. No one has designed handsomer seating in the 20th century. His best-known and most widely copied chair was designed for the Kabarett Fledermaus (1907), a club by and for the avant-garde. The regularity of its limbs and parts is strict, but as with...
...three tapas cooks prepare 25 choices each day, and his menu also lists eight or ten conventional main courses, both Spanish and Continental. "About 65% of our business is now tapas," says the chef, who offers them all day and evening, and for supper in the Ballroom's adjoining cabaret. He makes weekly trips to the Island Club on Williams Island in North Miami, where he supervises tapas as well as the rest of the food operation...
...plot resembles the house, an outrageous, turreted wonder. Lenny MaGrath (Keaton) is the oldest sister, unmarried, moody, leery of men because of a "shrunken ovary." Meg (Lange), the flamboyant middle sister, is a minor- league cabaret singer whose recent employment has been in a dog-food company. Babe, the youngest, has that little problem with the husband she shot wisely but not well. Meg tells cheerful lies to Old Grandaddy and worries later that when he finds out the truth, he will lapse into a coma. Babe and Lenny laugh so hard at this that they can hardly spit...
Broadway's search for a new hit musical has sent it lurching mostly into the past. Of this season's first ten efforts, two derived from old movies, two reworked old novels, four rehashed old stage or cabaret shows, and six relied entirely on recycled songs. Last week the main stem reached back 20 years to revive Sweet Charity, a loud, sentimental farce about a taxi dancer who gives herself body and soul, but especially body, to any man who hints of love. In 1966, Sweet Charity garnered just one Tony Award, for Bob Fosse's explosive choreography...
...Fosse won the Emmy for directing Liza Minnelli's special Liza with a "Z," the Tony for directing Pippin and the Oscar for directing Cabaret. Since that still unmatched feat, he has tested his writing talents in film, with the semiautobiographical All That Jazz, and onstage, with the bookless Dancin' and now the book-heavy Big Deal. Broadway should admire all that daring. Big Deal is not his best work, but it is a powerful reminder that Fosse set the standards others still strive...