Word: cabareting
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...first act, according to the program, takes place in "A Cabaret After Hours," the second in "A Cabaret." Changes from informal to matching costumes, and from normal to glaring spots in lighting, marked the end of one act and the beginning of the next. In addition, the musicians in the band put away the sixes of Michelob before the second act, or maybe they had just finished them by then. (They managed to keep the beat very well throughout, anyway.) But aside from these contrasts and a long intermission, the "frontstage" and "backstage" of a cabaret don't appear very...
...haunts on the Great White Way, singing with the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center. Grey starred in the first American production of Silverlake, an allegorical opera with music by Kurt Weill, originally produced in Germany in 1933, the place and period of Grey's enormously successful Cabaret. Silverlake's theme, the venal rich vs. the virtuous poor, was so politically powerful in 1933 that Nazi storm troopers broke up performances. New York critics were not that harsh, but some deemed the libretto dated and the music not worth Weill. Still, uptown was heady for Grey...
Come to the cabaret, old friend...
Life is a cabaret...
Those lyrics have entered the popular imagination as a paean to the decadent life. Cabaret shows not just the free-and-easy side, but the slide into darkness that goes along with it. The Leverett House production doesn't neglect one side for the other...