It is the liability of filmed theater or cabaret pieces that the camera will not stay in its seat. Numbers directed and choreographed for a stationary audience become mutant musical creatures when the zoom lens plunges forward and upends whatever sense of staging originally existed. Fosse's "Cabaret" nightclub scenes are classic moments of this effect used to a creative end. The same, I am afraid, cannot be said here. Camera work aside, I felt the lack of impotent anger that so soaks this song
It is the liability of filmed theater or cabaret pieces that the camera will not stay in its seat. Numbers directed and choreographed for a stationary audience become mutant musical creatures when the zoom lens plunges forward and upends whatever sense of staging originally existed. Fosse's "Cabaret" nightclub scenes are classic moments of this effect used to a creative end. The same, I am afraid, cannot be said here. Camera work aside, I felt the lack of impotent anger that so soaks this song
bottom2topjk 1 year ago
what company did this?
kgrahams 3 years ago
This was Chicago's Theo Ubique Theatre Company. Chris Damiano recently won a Jeff Award for it.
cheatsatmonopoly 2 years ago