Five months after playing to sitting-room-only houses at the Fair Park Music Hall--thanks, no doubt, to Lawson Taitte's tsk-tsk review in The Dallas Morning News, in which he warned the blue-hairs to stay away unless they can "stomach" such decadent filth--Cabaret returns, this time to Fort Worth. Lea Thompson, unexpectedly excellent as Sally Bowles, has since left the cast to join the "real" production on Broadway; she has since been replaced by Kate Shindle, Miss America 1998. Remaining, however, is Jon Peterson as the charmingly churlish Emcee, a role that belonged to Joel Grey until Alan Cumming wrested it from his back pocket and made it his own. Peterson, in kind, steals the touring production--even if, from a distance, he looks like the offspring of Cumming and Saturday Night Live's Chris Kattan, if they were to mate in a vat of pancake makeup. A baaaaad good time will be had, even if you won't get "Wilkommen" out of your head for weeks.--Robert Wilonsky