Cabaret
Joan MarcusIt's one thing to enter the canon; it's another to do so while simultaneously bucking just about everything the canon dictates in the first place.I've been thinking a lot about Cabaret since I saw the Mendes revival (of the revival) last week. I've been thinking that a big part of what makes Cabaret such a masterpiece is its central dichotomy: it is an incredibly compelling, brilliantly scored stage musica…