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Nightclub theater where the fourth wall is the first casualty of the evening.
means A small club or restaurant where you eat, drink, and watch live song-and-dance entertainment performed close-up rather than on a distant stage.
from Comes from French cabaret, meaning a tavern or small wine shop — a word whose own roots are murky, possibly tracing back through Middle French and Old North French to a word for a small room or chamber (related to the Latin camera). It drifted from 'a humble room for drinking' to 'the drinking establishment itself' to, by the early 1900s, the intimate stage-and-supper-club entertainment we picture now — Parisian venues like the Chat Noir helped cement that leap from tavern to theater.
- origin
- french for tavern, became art form in 1880s paris
- golden age
- weimar berlin, before the 1933 lights went out
- signature move
- audience seated at tables, drinking through the plot
- tone
- glitter on top, dread underneath, always