New York, April 7th, 2008
STANDARDS BEARER MAUDE MAGGART AT THE OAK ROOM AT THE ALGONQUIN THROUGH MAY 10 Maude Maggart is looking over the Algonquin hotel's newly renovated Oak Room. "They got rid of the booth in the corner! " she wails. "I sat there once with this guy who was courting me to be my manager. I kept having to poke him-he was nodding off." Maggart didn't hire the guy. But his behavior sums up the perennial problem of cabaret: keeping the most well-worn of songs relevant and exciting. It's a challenge that Maggart, 32, surmounts in her spellbinding shows, six weeks of which begin on Tuesday at the Oak Ro...
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