Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maggie Soboil. The internationally acclaimed South African star presents an evening of satire and song. At the Charles Playhouse Cabaret, 74 Warrenton St., through April 11. Performances Thursday and Sunday at 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday...
...pouty lips conveyed a resurgent bitterness last week. There was an air of anger about him and dissension among his campaign aides. At the start of the 1976 campaign, he had seemed to be a gentle George Wallace. He refrained from attacking his critics and sang his populist song of cheering up the embattled middle class without the old undertones of racism and class hatred. But it had not worked. His railings against Washington bureaucrats, wealthy tax chiselers and crime in the streets had become respectable-but were being pre-empted by more respectable candidates. Carter asked Southern audiences...
...cinematic X-ertions (Behind the Green Door, Resurrection of Eve) playing in movie houses round the country, Chambers, 23, has now begun polishing her moves for a New York cabaret show. Titled "Le Bellybutton" and scheduled for opening this week in New York's Hotel Diplomat, the song-and-dance blackout revue will exhibit Marilyn and a cast of eleven in a multitude of skins. "Of course films are very lucrative," purrs Marilyn, "but this is more lucrative in the way of experience...
There's always consolation, though. The feeling comes through that the day he finished the song, "Havana Daydreamin," the ABC-Dunhill people told him it was going to be the next AM hit; so he went out and got real drunk and the next day wrote "My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don't Love Jesus," the hangover song of all time. And, too, there are the sloshed and sleazy Buffett songs that sum it-up, like "Brand New Country Star" off the "3/4 Time" album: Well, he outgrew his sequinned suit, sold his Trailways...
Alan Stock delivers a solidly one-dimensional performance as Mortimer, a sentimental youth whose lusts power his desire to rescue Mary. Reciting his lines in an undeviating sing-song, he manages to mangle a relatively uncomplicated role...