Cabaret
Shimberg Playhouse @ the Straz Center
In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken by English singer Sally Bowles. Meanwhile, Fräulein Schneider, proprietor of Cliff and Sally’s boardinghouse, tentatively begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish.
June 9-26, 2016
Book by Joe Masteroff
Based on the play by John Van Druten and
Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Direction by Clareann Despain
Music Direction by Peter A. Belk
Choreography by Abraham Bell
June 9-26, 2016
Thurs-Sat: 8 pm, Sun: 2 pm
Tickets: $25 general / $35 VIP
Shimberg Playhouse @ Straz Center for the Performing Arts
Cast & Crew
Starring
Aaron Castle as Emcee
Lauren Buglioli as Sally Bowles
Eric Lamont Newman as Cliff Bradshaw
Miranda Harrison-Quillin as Fräulein Schneider
Donald B. Holt, Jr. as Herr Schultz
Jay Morgan as Ernst Ludwig
Dionne Christian as Fräulein Lulu Kost
Zach “Hippie” Griswold as Max
Kidany Camilo as Rosie
Kandyce Walker as Frenchie
Abraham Bell as Texas
Erin Coalson as Fritzie
Iris Moon as Ilsa
Dwayne A. Cline as Helga
Christopher Warren as Bobby
Mika McGee Kleinschmidt as Victor
James Wyatt Babington as Hans
Kevin Lara as Herman
Pablo Alameda as Franz
Peter A. Belk as Klaus Linke
Accompanied by
Peter A. Belk – Conductor/Piano
Tim Flores – Keyboard 2
Aeron DeGroat – Tenor Saxophone
Aaron K. Campbell – Trombone
Alex Pasut – Bass
P.J. Lalka – Drums
Director – Clareann Despain
Music Director – Peter A. Belk
Producer – Cathy Hooten
Choreographer – Abraham Bell
Stage Manager – Brandon Rathbone
Set Designer – Dwayne A. Cline
Costumer – Meli Mossey
Lighting Designer – Anthony Vito
Sound Designer – Samuel Kohler
Lighting Engineer – Kary Torrens
Assistant Stage Manager – Mab Miranda
Graphic Artist – Deveraux Harrington
Review
“Watching it less than a week after the horrors in Orlando, it was as if the problems of the 1930’s had jumped off the stage and had entered our present day.”
“Gladly, [Aaron Castle] shines here in all of his delicious awfulness, a slithering, reptilian reflection of the times.”
“Lauren Buglioli is nothing short of a revelation.”
– Peter Nason, BroadwayWorld.com
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