I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
I love to entertain, and it's hard to do that when you have to keep the rhythm up there. We're a three-piece (act) and somebody has to play the guitar. I used to do cabaret. I would jump into people's laps while performing.
It just seemed fitting to have our own lounge with our own dance review that paid homage to where The Pussycat Dolls originated, ... So it wasn't just another nightclub. It was somewhere where people can go and see an old school show with real dancing and real performing and real singing. It's perfect for Vegas. It's got that whole cabaret, burlesque-inspired review of dancing, and the whole fishnets, and boas.
We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.
Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.
I am hoping there will be enough demand where I can move from one performance Saturday night to additional late-night shows. Eventually, I'd love to have Cabaret, other shows and stand up (comedy). I want to see a lot of different art forms using this place constantly.
But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
We were inspired by cabaret culture in Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s.
I think it's a wonderful experience, particularly if you are younger, because you can use all of this stuff you learn in cabaret. One of the reasons I love cabaret is the freedom. It's absolutely marvelous. It's great... that real freedom of being able to do anything you want. You can do five minutes on pantyhose.
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
I don't worry about it, ... I just worked with Neil Jordan on 'Breakfast On Pluto,' where I play an Irish transvestite singer in a London cabaret.'
It's not so much the club as we kind of make it into, like, theater. It's kind of like revue, like cabaret. It's like, you know, doing our show.
The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.
Reading the script, I had a strong feeling for the character. She has this brassy, cabaret quality, but she wears her heart on her sleeve, and I thought she was one of the most captivating characters I'd ever read.
It started and I thought, 'lame cabaret,' and then, magic.
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