Confusing 'Cabaret' Act ; Drags Out Too Many Themes
The Washington Times › September 17, 2006
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What good is sitting alone in your room? For starters, you won't have to sit through Arena Stage's lugubrious production of "Cabaret," which takes an already politically charged musical and lards it over with contemporary references to anti-Semitism, homophobia, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and the erosion of American civil liberties after September 11.
That's a lot of weight for any show to carry, and the dark dazzle of John Kander and Fred Ebb's 1966 musical set in a debauched nightclub in pre-World War II Berlin nearly collapses from the strain.See the full content of this document
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Confusing 'Cabaret' Act ; Drags Out Too Many Themes
Much of the sophistication is lost, and the wicked decadence of the piece based on Christopher Isherwood's biographical "Berlin Stories" not only evaporates, but all of a sudden seems squalid in the context of director Molly Smith's visio...
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