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5 unusual facts about cabaret


Bill Brochtrup

The best-selling book of essays I Love You, Mom! includes his original stories at Un-Cabaret and numerous spoken word events.

Metropole Internment Camp

Cabaret performances were produced by internees in the dining room of Metropole Hotel, which was also used for indoor sports outside of mealtimes.

Un-Cabaret

When LunaPark closed, UnCabaret moved to the HBO Workspace (where they developed the show with Warner Bros), then to The Knitting Factory and M-Bar always continuing to produce personal narrative comedy with an expanding group of non-traditional comedians Sklar Brothers, Patton Oswalt, Greg Behrendt, Jeff Garlin, Mike McDonald, plus writers like Jerry Stahl, Michael Patrick King, Larry Charles, Judd Apatow, John Riggi and others.

UnCabaret also produced The Other Network, a festival of un-aired TV pilots introduced by their creators, including Robert Smigel, Conan O'Brien, Bob Odenkirk, Judd Apatow and others.

Winnie Holzman

She wrote and performed several personal essays at the Un-Cabaret spoken word shows in Los Angeles and is featured on their CD Play the Word (Vol. 1).


1947 in art

June 1 - Anna Hoffman-Uddgren, Swedish actress and cabaret singer, Music hall and Revue artist, theatre director and Film director

Amanda Strydom

She also began performing as a solo cabaret artist, at Garbo's in Cape Town and at Club 58 in Hillbrow.

Aria Crescendo

She was promoting their upcoming album, named Crazy Horse, in honor of the cabaret in Paris where it all started.

Bluesology

As Baldry's music drifted more towards the cabaret market, Dwight became disenchanted with the band, and so simultaneously began to develop songwriting skills in collaboration with Bernie Taupin whilst working as a session musician.

Cassiopée

She started her professional career by performing in over 500 shows by the French-traditional cabaret company's Les Folie's De Paris in Quebec City, Canada and then in Lille and Cannes, France, as a dancer, magician's assistant, entertainer, and lead singer, before moving to Montreal in 2000 as the star of another cabaret and musical company, La Troupe Paris Paris.

Danny Bruno

Since then, Bruno has had major roles in hundreds of plays throughout the Northwest at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, New Rose Theater, Artists Repertory Theatre, Oregon Repertory Theatre, Lakewood Theatre, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Actor's Cabaret of Eugene, Northwest Classical Theatre, Profile Theatre and Stark Raving Theatre among others.

Debby Bishop

Her last theatre performance was the Cabaret in the House show with Peter Straker at Lauderdale House theatre in London, March 2004.

Debra Byrne

She also wrote, directed, choreographed and stars in the live cabaret show Girls, Girls, Girls. The show also stars Wendy Stapleton and Nikki Nicholls and was the 2002 winner of the Herald Sun Best Cabaret Award.

Eddington, Kent

The cemetery contains an elaborate monument to Lydia Cecilia Hill, known as Cissie Hill, a cabaret dancer and close friend of Ibrahim, Sultan of Johor who funded the building of Mayfair Court and the associated servants' quarters in Grand Drive, Herne Bay for her.

Édouard Ferlet

At the same time, he continued to play with singers from various backgrounds: Mark Murphy in Jazz, Manda Djin in Gospel, Geoffrey Oryema in World Music and Lambert Wilson in cabaret.

Grünbaum

Franz Friedrich "Fritz" Grünbaum, Austrian cabaret artist, operetta and pop song writer

Harry Waldau

He was a Jewish pianist, composer and lyricist and part of the 1920s cabaret scene in Berlin, writing songs like Savannah Tango, Mensch komm mal rüber, Warum kiekste mir denn immer uff die Beene and Die Tausend-Kronen-Note for singer Claire Waldoff.

Hermann Leopoldi

By 1922 he and his brother were well enough known to open their own cabaret, Kabarett Leopoldi-Wiesenthal, which developed a reputation as a centre for such later celebrated performers as Hans Moser, Szöke Szakall, Max Hansen, Fritz Grünbaum, Karl Valentin, Raoul Aslan und Otto Tressler.

Hindley Street, Adelaide

Hindley Street was mentioned in the wording of the song "Carrington Cabaret" by Redgum on their 1978 album If You Don't Fight You Lose.

Ignatius Jones

In 1982 after their disbandment, Jones pursued a solo career and by the mid-1980s was a member of a swing jazz-cabaret band, Pardon Me Boys, with O'Riordan and Jones' sister, Monica Trapaga – former Play School presenter.

Janika Sillamaa

Born to the family of musicians, Janika found herself on stage at a very young age: in the musical theatre Colombina, founded by her mother Kaari Sillamaa, she played lead roles in children's musicals, such as "Thumbelina" and a revue programme "Mini-Cabaret", and many more.

Joe Langworth

In 2012, Langworth directed the cabaret performances of Broadway couple Jenny Powers and Matt Cavenaugh, as well as the cabaret debut of Laura Osnes at the Cafe Carlyle in New York City.

Juba Kalamka

In 2005, Kalamka was contacted by artist and sex worker advocate Annie Oakley (whom he'd met at the Olympia, Washington queer arts fest HomoAGoGo) and accepted an invitation to tour with The Sex Workers' Art Show, a month long cross-country cabaret style theater event featuring current and former sex worker artist/activists.

Kabaret Starszych Panów

The hosts and producers were Jerzy Wasowski and Jeremi Przybora, the two older gentlemen mentioned in the cabaret's name.

The Cabaret was founded and led by composer Jerzy Wasowski (b. 1913) and writer Jeremi Przybora (b. 1915), the two older gentlemen in the cabaret's title.

Kevin Colson

Kevin Colson (born 28 August 1937) is an Australian stage, film and television actor best known for his portrayal of Sir George Dillingham in the musical Aspects of Love, for which he received a Tony nomination, and his early role as Cliff in the original London production of Cabaret opposite Judi Dench.

Kooman and Dimond

Homemade Fusion is a song cycle, and was originally produced at Carnegie Mellon University, and moved on to venues such as The Pittsburgh CLO's Cabaret Space, The Zipper Theater, and Monday Nights New Voices Chicago.

Last Ditch Cabaret

"Last Ditch Cabaret" is a 1997 song by Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Seymour (ex-Hunters & Collectors) released ahead of his debut solo album, King Without a Clue.

Lesburlesque

The troupe began as a duet burlesque routine idea, but following favourable responses from established burlesque performers Kitty Liquor, Mona Von Chrome, Isobella Lash and March Violets vocalist Rosie Garland, aka Rosie Lugosi, Pixie dedicated herself to making Lesburlesque into a fully fledged cabaret group.

Lindsay Ridgeway

She also is a semi-regular singer of the National Anthem at Staples Center in Los Angeles for the NHL's Los Angeles Kings and for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball team, and performs in cabaret shows periodically throughout Los Angeles.

Main Khiladi Tu Anari

Mona (Shilpa Shetty), a cabaret singer and Goli's mistress, agrees to testify against Goli and is placed into witness protection by Inspector Karan (Akshay Kumar), Arjun's younger brother, who aims to fight any injustice and avenge his brother's murder.

Maple Leaf Village

It boasted a multi-screen movie theatre, numerous attractions (through the years: That's Incredible! museum and the Elvis Presley Museum were here), countless souvenir and apparel stores, Lillie Langtry's tavern and club and, in later years, the first locale for the Canadian comedy cabaret, Yuk-Yuk's.

McBroom

Amanda McBroom (born 1946), American singer, song-writer and cabaret performer

Milan Gutović

Milan "Lane" Gutović (born August 11, 1946 in Umka, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian actor, cabaret performer, and television personality.

Murder at the Cabaret

Murder at the Cabaret is a 1936 British crime film directed by Reginald Fogwell and starring Phyllis Robins, Freddie Forbes, James Carew and Frederick Peisley.

National Breast Cancer Coalition

Two large fundraising events are held each year to raise funds for NBCC: the Les Girls cabaret held every October in Los Angeles and the Annual New York Gala held in November in New York City.

Neues aus der Anstalt

ZDF had not broadcast a cabaret program since the cancellation of Notizen aus der Provinz with Dieter Hildebrandt in 1979, who, as a result, switched to the other German public broadcasting channel, Das Erste, where he created the Scheibenwischer.

New Embassy Theater

The New Embassy Theatre is a performance theater located in the downtown mall of Cumberland, Maryland at 49 Baltimore St. The theater mounts live performances of classic theatre fare such as Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera and Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, as well as lesser-known work such as "The Mystery of Irma Vep" and "The Lady In Question," original works and local historical plays.

Patricia Darcy Jones

Patty's dynamic voice led her career spanning from singing at the Paper Moon Cabaret in Greenwich Village to backup singer for Cher as well as singing with artists: Petula Clark, Joe Cocker, Billy Joel, Tom Jones, Darlene Love, Rusty Magee, Melissa Manchester, Bette Midler, Olivia Newton-John, Robert Plant, Todd Rundgren, Ronnie Spector, Styx and The Young Rascals.

Rinty Monaghan

A part-time cabaret artist, Monaghan toured western Europe during World War II with other notables of the period including Vera Lynn, Gracie Fields and George Formby, and later formed his own band.

Rosemary Ashe

She can be heard on the cast recordings of The Phantom of the Opera, The Boy Friend, Bitter Sweet, Kismet, The Student Prince, Song of Norway, Oliver, The Killer Soprano, The Witches of Eastwick, Serious Cabaret, Mary Poppins amongst others.

Suzy Delair

On 25 February 1948, she participated in the first Nice Jazz Festival; during this first edition, she sings for the first time the song "C'est si bon" to a cabaret where Louis Armstrong ended his evening.

The Jackson Code

As Casimir put it, the band took inspiration for its 'self-styled urban Romantic Cabaret' from German writers such as Brecht and Weill, as well as Tom Waits.

The Shanghai Drama

Christl Mardayn as Kay Murphy, cabaret singer (as Christiane Mardayne)

Tom Manders

Later he also designed decors for theatre and cabaret, regularly for Lou Bandy, Wim Kan and theatre Carré in Amsterdam.

Tora Augestad

She holds a Master's degree in cabaret singing at Norges Musikkhøgskole with particular emphasis on Hanns Eisler, Kurt Weill and American cabaret.

Tropicana Club

The history of the cabaret is detailed in Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub (Harcourt, 2005) by Rosa Lowinger and Ofelia Fox.

Umberto Smaila

Born in Verona, in the early 70's Smaila co-founded together with Jerry Calà, Franco Oppini and Ninì Salerno a cabaret-ensemble, "i gatti di Vicolo Miracoli".

Vile Imbeciles

The band went on to promote the album with new drummer Evan Reinhold, who had previously collaborated with Huxley in bohemian cabaret band The Dirty Cakes (featured on the BBC Three Reality TV Show Singing with the Enemy) which Huxley was a songwriter for.

Westerbork transit camp

The German film actress and cabaret singer Dora Gerson was interned at Westerbork with her family before being sent on a transport to Auschwitz.

Where Did All the Love Go?

According to guitarist Serge Pizzorno, the song's music video was inspired by Kenneth Anger's films like Scorpio Rising, Busby Berkeley and French cabaret.

Wolf Biermann

A performance in April 1965 in Frankfurt am Main on Wolfgang Neuss' cabaret program was recorded and released as an LP titled Wolf Biermann (Ost) zu Gast bei Wolfgang Neuss (West).


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