Word: nightclubs
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...inexpensive night out: food-and- entertainment packages range from $33 (Prom Queens) to $75 (Tony n' Tina's top). At best, as in Song of Singapore and Pageant, audiences are reminded of theater's power to create a world out of song and shadow -- to offer circus and stage, nightclub and Kiwanis Club, in one beguiling bundle...
...organized religion. Williamson, the daughter of an affluent Houston attorney, considers herself one of them. "The course was my personal path out of hell," she says. "There was little I hadn't tried or been through," including numerous sexual relationships, drugs and even a stab at singing nightclub jazz...
Director Craig Cochrane sets Yesterdays in an elegant, dimly lit nightclub--round tables with gardenia centerpieces surround a low stage flanked by a piano trio. The audience is seated on the 'set,' establishing the intimacy of an actual jazz performance. During the production, beverages and pretzels can be ordered, and chatting is (or seems to be) acceptable--the distinction between theater and cabaret is undermined...
That is not as easy as it sounds. The lead lounge lizard, toothpaste heir Charley Pearl (Baldwin), is engaged and attending a Las Vegas bachelor party when he falls into obsession with nightclub singer Vicki Anderson (Basinger). She, in turn, is the mistress of the Strip's founding mobster, Bugsy Siegel. In other words, these are not people with whom one feels an immediate natural identification. Nor is their problem -- a stormy relationship that requires them to marry and separate four times -- one for which most people are likely to have an affinity...
...sure bet that Lee's outspoken style and some of his more controversial directorial moves--such as his stereotypical portrayal of two Jewish nightclub owners in "Mo' Better Blues"--will cause something of a stir on the sensitive Harvard campus...