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(MTV at 8) After her divorce from
longtime partner Roger, JWoww
has a new man. The guys visit Mike
in jail while he serves time for tax
evasion. Vinny loses his footing.
The Outpost (CW at 8) The most
wanted prisoner of the besieged
outpost plans an escape. An enemy
from Talon’s past is unearthed.
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unexpected ex. Another ex is sent
home. Cameron is forced to
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large commission over a table
tennis match. Steve’s girlfriend
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the massive terrace on one of his
listings could be perfect for trained
pets.
Impractical Jokers (Tr uTV at 10)
The guys play tag at a coffee shop.
Shoppers deliver weird messages
at the grocery store. For the first
time, the show’s punishment is
actually a non-punishment.
PREMIERING
Sunday Night Football
(NBC at 8:20) The Green Bay
Packers will face off against the
Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in
Chicago.Secret Nazi Ruins (Science at 10)
This series will examine mysteries
surrounding Adolf Hitler’s World
War II projects, including tunnels,
communication centers and
artillery sites.LATE NIGHT
Daily Show/Noah (Comedy
Central at 11) Gov. Steve Bullock,
Tr acee Ellis Ross.Late Show/Colbert (CBS at 11:35)
Pete Buttigieg, Graham Norton.Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC at 11:35)
June Diane Raphael, Clairo.Tonight Show/Fallon (NBC at
12:05) Kendall Jenner, Desus and
Mero, Tanya Tucker featuring
Brandi Carlile.Late Late Show/Corden (CBS at
12:37) Orlando Bloom, Yvonne
Strahovski, O-Town.Late Night/Meyers (NBC at 1:08)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), DeRay
Mckesson, Carter McLean.
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efforts to combat global challenges connected to extreme poverty.
(Pictured: Global Citizen CEO Hugh Evans and actress Rachel Brosnahan.)
BY CELIA WRENDon’t tell Mama, but the Kit
Kat Klub has gained a little class.
The central setting and anchor-
ing idea for the musical “Cabaret”
still harbors the requisite louche
personalities and risque song-
and-dance acts. Fishnet-stocking
suppliers aren’t hurting for busi-
ness. But in director Alan Paul’s
smart, tangy production at Olney
Theatre Center, there’s slightly
less of the pointed sleaze that has
suffused other iterations of the
Weimar Berlin nightspot. It’s a
prudent calibration that ulti-
mately reinforces the theme of a
society’s disastrous and willful
moral myopia.
The production’s attractive
scenic and musical conception
allows us to feel, rather than
simply observe, the lure of that
myopia. The fine-sounding or-
chestra — 11 musicians, includ-
ing music director Christopher
Youstra — basks at center stage,
among crystal chandeliers and
red-satin-draped music stands.
With a harp as an eye-catching
presence, the setup evokes cock-
tail hour in a 1930s movie. (Wil-
son Chin is the scenic designer.)
How tempting it would be to
succumb to the elegant diversion
and ignore inconvenient truths,
namely, the rise of Nazism.
That political development
looms throughout the musical,
which is based on John Van
Druten’s play “I Am a Camera”
and stories by Christopher Isher-
wood. Originally on Broadway in
1966, with music by John
Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and
book by Joe Masteroff, “Cabaret”
depicts American writer Clifford
Bradshaw (Gregory Maheu) ar-
riving in Weimar Berlin, where
he takes up with the vibrantly
dissipated showgirl Sally Bowles
(Alexandra Silber). Amid the de-
bauchery of the milieu, ugly
incidents presage the Nazi take-
over.
Both the decadence and the
ominous political and social con-
ditions find expression in the
musical’s cabaret acts, performed
principally by Sally (the saucy
“Don’t Te ll Mama,” etc.) and the
Kit Kat Klub’s insinuating Emcee
(Mason Alexander Park), who
concludes “If You Could See Her,”
an arch song a nd pas de deux with
a performer in gorilla costume, by
noting that, in his eyes, his be-
loved doesn’t “look Jewish at all.”
The Olney production has a major
asset in Park’s Emcee, who exudes
not only the necessary lewdness,
but also a childishness and vul-
nerability, which adds emotional
punch while echoing the sense of
a society teetering on the edge.
Sporting glitter eye shadow, this
Emcee salaciously caresses the
harp. He l ooks downcast when his
jokes fizzle. In numbers such as
the provocative opener “Willkom-
men,” he sings in brassy, smokytones, frequently letting a snarl
creep in.
Maheu nails Cliff’s appealing
earnestness and fallibility. Silber
(Guenevere in Paul’s “Camelot”
at Shakespeare Theatre Compa-
ny) captures Sally’s jittery des-peration — as when she invades
Cliff’s room and shimmies on his
sofa — but her cabaret numbers
don’t pop as much as they
should.
In a story arc that adds aching
poignancy, Donna Migliacciopacks humor and solidity into
landlady Fräulein Schneider,
who is wooed by Herr Schultz, a
gentle Jewish fruit merchant.
Mitchell Hébert is marvelously
funny and endearing as Schultz,
even though his singing is tenta-tive at best.
In other contributions,
To m Story is serviceable as the
weaselly Ernst Ludwig; costume
designer Kendra Rai revels i n the
cabaret performers’ outre garb;
and orchestra member Andrew
Axelrad supplies a golden sax
solo. The execution of Katie
Spelman’s vamping choreogra-
phy is often imperfectly synced,
although the look arguably suits
the seediness more frequently
associated with the Kit Kat Klub.
A high-kick sequence that turns
into a goose-step is one of the
rare too-blunt moments in a
production that otherwise moves
astutely, as well as fluidly.
A simple coup d e théâtre in the
production’s final moments (no
spoilers here) underscores the
show’s all-too-timely vision of
civic and political blindness. In
the audience, we take stock of
ourselves. Did we find too much
welcome in the “Willkommen”?
[email protected]Ca baret , book by Joe Masteroff,
music by John Kander, lyrics by Fr ed
Ebb. Directed by Alan Paul, lighting
design, Colin K. Bills; sound, Matt
Rowe; wigs, Ali Pohanka. With
Connor James Reilly, Andre Hinds,
Jessica Lauren Ball, Ben Gunderson
and others. About 2^1 / 2 hours. $42-
$84. Through Oct. 6 at Olney Theatre
Center, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring
Rd., Olney. 301-924-3400.
olne ytheatre.org.THEATER REVIEW
Olney Theatre Center’s production of ‘Cabaret’ goes easy on the sleazy
STAN BAROUH
Mason Alexander Park (center, with the Kit Kat Girls) is an attention-grabbing Emcee in “Cabaret.”THEATRE
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