Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nightclub Cantata is the title director Elizabeth Swados has given to the 75 minutes of theatre that had just put actors and audience back in touch with their world--not just beneath but above, and even within, themselves. The location has since changed to the Charles Playhouse and the off-Broadway cast will soon be replaced, but Cantata is a hit that likely won't leave Boston soon...
Swados has created, composed and directed 21 musical numbers--each a separate attempt to explore the many levels of human interaction through simple song and melody. Nightclub Cantata is part of her search for "new words for music," words, she says, "that will not make either bad poetry or easy emotions." Playing with a vast range of 'foreign' languages, she has set to music "Avesta," an old Persian cursing language, as well as jungle choruses and a bird lament...
Swados also has not overcome the problem of integrating into a whole the varied subjects and formats of the adopted pieces. Blackouts are used too frequently for transition between numbers instead of more refined staging and lighting. At times the structure disappears, turning Nightclub Cantata into Up With People gone disco...
DIED. Lou Walters, 81, father of TV newswoman Barbara Walters and a nightclub impresario who founded New York's famed Latin Quarter in 1942; of a heart attack; in Miami. Impish and softspoken, the London-born Walters made and spent millions on his lavish supper clubs in Boston, New York and Miami. His cavalcade of performers included Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Milton Berle and Mae West. A hit-and-miss Broadway producer, Walters went bankrupt in 1966 when his deals started to sour. In his glory days, his celebrity circle surrounded Daughter Barbara, who was never awed by stars...
...more spectacular crimes. David Berkowitz told them why he had placed that semiautomatic rifle in his car on the night he was captured. He said he planned to drive out to the fashionable Hampton resort communities on Long Island and blast away at the crowd in a discotheque or nightclub. He was ready, he said with a smile, "to go down in a blaze of glory...