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By Natalie Pompilio | For NJ Advance Media
on March 07, 2017 at 9:30 AM, updated March 07, 2017 at 9:34 AM
New Jersey’s first Cabaret Festival comes to Bloomfield College‘s Westminster Arts Center March 8 and 9, and co-organizer Corinna Sowers Adler wants to ensure potential audience members understand what cabaret is so there’s no confusion with burlesque or even more sordid stage acts.

“It’s not scantily clad,” Sowers Adler promised, describing cabaret as “a musical conversation between a performer and the audience. There’s no fourth wall. The performer usually has a story tell about a song, using it as a tool to help the audience feel emotion.”

Cabarets feature standards and selections from the American songbook; think Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and George Gershwin.  The performances are generally intimate in terms of venue and audience size, not attire or lack thereof.

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