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" The wonderful thing about cabaret is, you can do a lot of things you can't do in a concert. You can't do smoky ballads for 50 minutes in a concert. It's a different animal. "

Rita Moreno

Animal

Concert

Things

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Genuine

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Good

Wake Up

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Friend

Just

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Attack

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