Cabaret @ The Deen
Wed, 7 Mar 2001, 01:30 amWalter Plinge35 posts in thread
Cabaret @ The Deen
Wed, 7 Mar 2001, 01:30 amTonight I was at The Deen in Northbridge where Scarp staged Cabaret. Strange really as I don't go to musicals generally, but what was even stranger was that I was actually in the cast. But I have an excuse - Jamie Cant is the Director and I wanted to find out if what people say about him is true! Well, my opinion about Jamie is............ sorry, I'm just about to sneeze...... wait a minute..... Ahhhhhhh!..Ahhhhh! Ahhhtosssssaaaa!!!!! There, that's better,. Now, where was I? Oh yes, Jamie Cant. Now what was I going to say? I'm sure it will come back to me soon.
Anyway, Cabaret - go see it! Those all-singin' all-dancin' types are really very talented. I was in total awe of the performances. I won't single people out ,'coz the cast party is yet to come, and everyone (apart from the jerk with the fruit) is excellent.
And if you want even more value for the trivial amount of money you will pay to get in, after the show go and tell Jamie you thought the guy playing Schultz was very good - wait until he's got a drink to his mouth though (which will be difficult as he will also have to be not talking).
And for the sake of Meadows, Buttery et al, the perv factor is very high. God I love being backstage.
Ahhh! Now I remember. About Jamie Cant - what people say IS true!
Anyway, Cabaret - go see it! Those all-singin' all-dancin' types are really very talented. I was in total awe of the performances. I won't single people out ,'coz the cast party is yet to come, and everyone (apart from the jerk with the fruit) is excellent.
And if you want even more value for the trivial amount of money you will pay to get in, after the show go and tell Jamie you thought the guy playing Schultz was very good - wait until he's got a drink to his mouth though (which will be difficult as he will also have to be not talking).
And for the sake of Meadows, Buttery et al, the perv factor is very high. God I love being backstage.
Ahhh! Now I remember. About Jamie Cant - what people say IS true!
RE: Cabaret - review
Fri, 9 Mar 2001, 05:16 pm(Apologies for my copious posts lately, killing time til something interesting happens, maybe a lovely houseguest?)
Gill,
I didn't think the absence of young Aryan was fatal to Caberet's (the Scarp one's) power. While in the Playlovers version the scene was definately my favourite, so chilling in the light of hindsight, it stayed with me for a long time after the show finished. But the way it was used in the Scarp version was totally different. In my mind having the Nazi guy teach the American guy (oh, so familure with the text!) the song was indcative of the German people begining to learn and follow a "tune", when they had no idea what it meant or of it's consequences. Of their innocence and indocrination.
I loved both the treatments of this scene, the Playlovers one and the Scarp one, and found them equally moving and powerful, but in very different ways.
Gill,
I didn't think the absence of young Aryan was fatal to Caberet's (the Scarp one's) power. While in the Playlovers version the scene was definately my favourite, so chilling in the light of hindsight, it stayed with me for a long time after the show finished. But the way it was used in the Scarp version was totally different. In my mind having the Nazi guy teach the American guy (oh, so familure with the text!) the song was indcative of the German people begining to learn and follow a "tune", when they had no idea what it meant or of it's consequences. Of their innocence and indocrination.
I loved both the treatments of this scene, the Playlovers one and the Scarp one, and found them equally moving and powerful, but in very different ways.
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