text: They hail Natasha Richardson 's unglamorous portrayal of Sally Bowles--an aging , seedy bisexual nightclub singer--as the performance of the season ( Ben Brantley , the New York Times ) . Dissenting , the Washington Post ' s Lloyd Rose says Richardson can 't phrase a song .
  
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  Sally Bowles is an aging bisexual singer who works in a nightclub .