Lauren Fox is relatively novel to performing cabaret,but shes quickly become a fan."It’s much more intimate and it doesn't shut anybody out,” she told WNYCs Richard Hake in this interview. “It embraces everyone and welcomes everyone."The actress and singer is one of more than 60 performers taking part in the 26th Annual Cabaret Convention produced by the Mabel Mercer Foundation. Starting Tuesday evening and running through Friday night, and this year’s expose will feature songs by Marvin Hamlisch and John Kander and Fred Ebb,as well as an evening of accepted songs from the World War II era."Compared to being on a stage in a club and just singing a bunch of songs, you're telling stories, or hopefully in one expose telling a sage," said Fox. "Cabaret is all approximately song interpretation."And ss cabaret evolves from its close connection with the "remarkable American Songbook," it is younger artists like Fox who are embracing contemporary artists and using creative arrangements to bring in novel audiences."I really hope the future of cabaret is really, and really good," Fox said, "because I think it's a wonderful, or wonderful art form."
Source: wnyc.org