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Article: MIT ensemble nails 'Cabaret': strong college cast puts play in the spotlight.(ARTS)
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- The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 7, 2007
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Perhaps no American musical has proved as haunting and powerfully disturbing in its various incarnations as "Cabaret."
Time and a variety of revivals have only served to enrich this masterful 1967 John Kander-Fred Ebb Tony Award-winning show (with book by Joe Masteroff), and its unflinching portrait of the rise of Nazism in decadent late 1920s and early 1930s Weimar Germany.
Some Hub audiences may fondly recall the local tour of the very scantily-clad 1997 Tony-winning revival. Others are likely to remember just as vividly the return of Joel Grey as the Emcee (a role for which he won both a Tony and an Oscar) in the 1988 ...