Word: eleganza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seating capacity of a dinner theater can vary from 200 to 800, and the atmosphere ranges from the cozy rusticity of the Coachlight in Warehouse Point, Conn., to the early Las Vegas eleganza of the neighboring Chateau de Ville. But with few exceptions there are four constants: 1) a huge parking lot; 2) expensive drinks; 3) an enormous meal at tables crammed to fire department limits around a stage often no bigger than the platter under the ubiquitous roast beef; and 4) light comedy or musicals after dinner interrupted by lengthy intermissions during which patrons can refill those expensive drinks...
...Parker in drag to the entire chorus line of beruffled hippos in Fantasia, and she shows traces of a dozen other singers: Streisand's nose and extraordinary head tones, Garland's saturation emotions and devoted homosexual following, Fanny Brice's waifish vulnerability, Joplin's floozy eleganza in attire and her tendency to egg audiences on to hysteria. But Miss M's secret is that she is not really like those others: she is acting like them. "I just try to have a good time and let the audience in on the secret," she says...