Word: cabareting
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Animalen, however, was not the best choice to inaugurate the Ordway operatically, even though it reflects both the region's Scandinavian ethnic background and the Minnesota Opera's long-standing commitment to new works. More a politically pacifist, musically jejune cabaret than an opera, it concerns a convention of animals that are worried about the nuclear arms race. They lecture representatives from the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the importance of avoiding war, and later turn up at a peace conference in Vienna. There a romance between a Las Vegas-type American entertainer and a Soviet chanteuse ends...
Take your pick of genres and moods. A cabaret evening? Try Haarlem Nocturne, led by lightning-footed Andre De Shields and best described as The Cotton Club with all the terrific dancing put back in. A serious play? In August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, a quartet of black gents sit around talking about music, women, and the demonstrable unfairness of life. Alas, Ma Rainey natters toward its climax like Ibsen gone funky, but it illuminates the talents of worldly-wise actors; one, Charles S. Dutton, spumes anger as the odd man out, striding, not shuffling...
WHERE ARE WE? Apparently not in Italy, though there is much discussion of Padua. Venice and ducats. In Paris?--Bassanio reads. "Le Monde." Perhaps in America, where all the songs from Cabaret which delineate the scenes would be most appropriate. But it so, why are these people speaking in such silly Elizabethan English...
After a Chinese Cabaret per formance, this reviewer sat down with Peter Melnick, Paul Warner and Andrea Burke in the theater...
Crimson: Where was Chinese Cabaret developed and where is it going...