... ms. Hilton had better be donating the million buckeroos to charity and her interview should be all about the mistake she made drinking and driving. Mmmmkay?In other news... I am starting a cabaret workshop today that will continue through the weekend. I'll miss the gay pride parade... alas. But I am not one for parades anyway. Stand out in the sun? Not I. I will be in the confines of a darkened cabaret room learning the tricks of the trade. We had to choose five songs to work on. I am wondering if it's five from which the instructors will pick... I don't see how we would have time to all work on five songs. We shall see. I admit, I am going into this with reserve. You see, I have this notion that I KNOW everything. So, prove me wrong. I want to be wrong. I want to be enlightened.
I have always enjoyed the cabaret... when it is good that is. Cabaret is an interesting ever-changing thing. It is either one of two qualities... amazing or horrible. There is hardly an inbetween. Sometimes there is but I would say that the description for THAT quality would be potentially amazing or potentially horrible. Cabaret get's all sorts and lot's of loonies who couldn't make it in other levels of showbiz. But then there are the tried and TRUE cabaret stars. These are the ones who have that timeless 1950's supper club quality. I am thinking of folks like Elaine Stritch, Eartha Kitt... and all other artists who's name begins with an E. (Kidding). But it has to come from a performer who truly has something to say and has a distinct interest in entertaining in a small environment. You get at the most 60 to 100 people in a cabaret, usually less and the artist although intimate must put out wattage worthy of carnegie hall. This is what the audience wants to see. They want to see an artist close up and be blown away. So the artist must think of each person in the room as ten people. Each person get's performance energy times ten... does this make sense? Because it makes absolutely NO sense to me what so ever.
And this is why I am taking the workshop. :-)