An Evening with Paulo Szot

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In its purest form, cabaret is meant to be a deep expression of the performing artist, but with the enormous cover and food charges found in Manhattan's major clubs, one is never completely surprised if audience-pleasing compromises have been made. But none, I suspect, are to be found in An Evening with Paulo Szot, now at the Cafe Carlyle, which marks the Tony Award-winning theater and opera star's first foray into this particular art form. The show is often thrilling, occasionally baffling, but unmistakably personal.

The dashingly handsome, gorgeously-voiced Szot spent much of the past 2 1/2 years playing French planter Emile de Becque in South Pacific, but he is of Brazilian heritage, a f[...]