If this sounds like some lost Kurt Weill record, this is a new performance of actual music from Berlin cabarets of 80 years ago. If you re a period tourist but would love to find something beyond the Weill/Lemper pale, Hughes picks up the ball and really runs with it. She and her musical hooligan pals in the Kiss and Tell Cabaret aren t afraid to modernize, rewrite, or even write whole new stuff that s firmly in step with the old manuscripts. An intimate/ nearly claustrophobic performance with cynicism and bite, this is tailor made for the opened ears looking for some really wild, new kick. Hughes could sing the phone book, she s that good and the material is just as cool a find. Performance art at it s populist best. Chris Spector