

Lyric Stage Founder Steven Jones serves as the Consulting Producer. CABARET in Concert is produced by Lyric Stage Producer Catherine Carpenter Cox and Lyric Stage Executive Artistic Director Christopher J. Stage Management is by Maddie Collins, Jenny Dang, and Tanvi Sutaria. Liles, with D’Mariel Jones serving as Assistant Costume Coordinator, and Props Coordination is by Christopher J. Lighting Design is by Scott Guenther, Sound Design & Engineering by Jorge Guerra, Costume Design & Coordination is by Megan A. Bowling, with Bruce Greer serving as the Musical Supervisor. The 12-piece, all-female orchestra will be led by Music Director Vonda K.

Bowling on Piano.ĬABARET in Concert will be directed and choreographed by Broadway veteran Penny Ayn Maas, with Ania Lyons serving as the Assistant Choreographer. The always live and local Lyric Stage Orchestra features Rachel Bundy on Violin, Hollie Dzierzanowski on Viola, Nini Rubiano on Cello, Brittany Hart on Bass, Kristen Thompson on Reed 1 (Clarinet, Alto Sax), Christy Springer on Reed 2 (Clarinet, Tenor Sax), Catherine Conlin on Reed 3 (Tenor Sax, Clarinet), Emma Cook on Trumpet, Julie Gray on Trombone, Ashley Westgate on Percussion, Vicky Nooe on Synthesizer/Keyboard, and Music Director/Conductor Vonda K. Allison & Megan Arroyo sing the recorded voice over for the Young German Children’s Voices. Presley Duyck serves as the Standby/Understudy for Sally Bowles, as well as a Kit Kat Girl, with Grace Moore as the Kit Kat Girl Swing for Rosie, Fritzie, & Frenchie, Alexa Morgan as the Kit Kat Girl Swing fo r Helga, Lulu, & Texas, and Danny Vanegas as the Understudy for Max & Kit Kat Boy Swing for Bobby, Victor, Hans, & Herman. Ortega as Hans (US Emcee), Sienna Riehle as Herman & Rudy, and André Pernell Williams as Victor. Rounding out the world of the famous, and infamous, Kit Kat Klub are Abi Abel as Fritzie, Tychelle Bearden as Helga, D’Mariel Jones as Bobby, Thi Le as Frenchie & the Gorilla, Laura Lites as Lulu (US Kost), Ania Lyons as Rosie, Elise Mendoza as Texas, Anthony J. White as Ernst Ludwig (US Cliff), Caroline Rivera as Fraulein Kost (US Schneider), and Greg Hullett as Max (US Ludwig & Schultz). Deaton as the Emcee and Catherine Carpenter Cox as Sally Bowles, with Preston Page as Clifford Bradshaw, Barbara Catrett as Fräulein Schneider, and David Fenley as Herr Schultz. This entertaining and exuberant, yet dark and moving, fully-staged concert production of the 1998 Version of CABARET boasts an entirely local cast of 22 singer/actors. With a score featuring songs that have become classics of the American Musical Theater, CABARET is a fierce, daring musical that pushes the boundaries of the form.ĬABARET is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC.

Deaton) guiding the way, CABARET focuses on the hedonistic nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub, and revolves around the relationships between a young American writer (“Clifford Bradshaw” played by Preston Page), an English cabaret performer (“Sally Bowles” played by Catherine Carpenter Cox), a German boarding house proprietor (“Fräulein Schneider” played by Barbara Catrett), and a mild-mannered, Jewish fruit seller (“Herr Schultz” played by David Fenley). With “the Emcee” (played by Christopher J. Set in a Berlin nightclub as the 1920's draw to a close, CABARET explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Germany’s natives and expatriates as the Third Reich emerges and the Nazis ascend to power. The 1998 Broadway Revival, starring Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson, was nominated for 10 Tony Awards®, winning 4, including Best Revival of a Musical, and ran for 2,377 performances, becoming the third longest-running revival in Broadway musical history. The 1972 film adaptation directed Bob Fosse, which starred Liza Minelli and Joel Grey, won 8 Academy Awards. The original 1966 production ran for 1,165 performances, and was nominated for 11 Tony Awards® in 1967, winning 8, including Best Musical and Best Score, with its original cast recording also winning a Grammy. Based on John Van Druten's 1951 play, I Am A Camera, which was adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 semi-autobiographical novel, Goodbye to Berlin, CABARET has music and lyrics by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of John Kander and Fred Ebb, and a book by Joe Masteroff.
