Photos from L to R: 1. Susan Egan, Kevin Kline, and Kerry Butler. (Photo by Aubrey Reuben). 2 The flashy dashy Rhe De Ville, supreme dame of elegance of the American cabaret.

CABARET! CABARET! That's is the answer, not the question! And the answer was there all the time, since the days and nights of La Goulue, Mistinguet, Josephine Baker, Juliette Greco, Barbara, Jane Avril, Rita Hayworth, Marlene Dietrich, Line Renaud, Edith Piaf, Melina Mercouri, Nina Simone, Gabriella Ferri and  Eartha Kitt.

But the cabaret of today gives us so many different and convergent answers. The cabaret of Susan Eagan's  Broadway  spotlights, neon flashes and extravaganza is so different from Aristide Bruant's Paris intellectual-vagabond "cabaret-boite". The Cabaret of the cultured Grande Dame Paulette Attie is the reverse reflection of  Mistinguet's Moulin Rouge and the Trocadero  cabaret gigolo panache. The classy Anna Bergman, the aristocrat vedette  and stunning Rhe De Ville's cabaret acts are  the contra definition of the 1930's Le Chat Noir and the 1920's Le Nean Cabaret of the hustlers, self-proclaimed philosophers and scary faces and characters  of the early Parisian cabarets.  Andrea Marcovicci's elegant and  academically refined cabaret style is so different from the nostalgically explosive cache of Gabriella Ferri and the cabaret noir of the sensational Melina Mercouri.

STARS OF THE YEARS 1920’s . "Les Grandes Dames de La Chanson".

   

                          Yvonne George                                Gaby Deslys                                 Arletty

 

 

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