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Article: `Cabaret' Star: Life's No Yolk
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- The Washington Post
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- September 18, 1987
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DIVINE DECADENCE: Alyson Reed answers the hotel phone at 11 a.m.
It's the morning after opening night, and her voice is kind of creaky
and whispery - quite a difference from the big voice of the night
before. That's because Reed, with the rest of the "Cabaret" cast,
was carousing till the early hours at Tracks disco, drinking, dancing
and playing volleyball.
Volleyball?
Our after-hours demimonde certainly pales in comparison to prewar
Germany.
As Kit Kat Club singer Sally Bowles, Reed sings some of the
famous John Kander-Fred Ebb songs that recall those darkening days
when Germany was sliding into nationalist mania. Back then, when
Sally had a hangover, she downed what she called a ...