Nick Cabaret is a man with a mask that nobody has seen behind. When he comes on stage in his outrageous makeup you are in the presence of a true professional, but to what seedy lodgings he drags himself when the makeup comes off can only be imagined. Like Joel Grey's MC in the film Cabaret, he seems to be sexually ambivalent. He is master of the soft sell and would probably make a better living as a salesman except that anything he tried to sell you would immediately look suspect.

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