Cabaret at Crocker Theater

Cabaret at Crocker Theater

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Aptos Times: August 2010

A11008webcover A summer of Broadway entertainment for all tastes is coming to an end as Cabrillo Stage Presents finishes their expanded 29th season of live, professional musical theatre. This year’s summer repertory presents Cabaret in the Cabrillo Crocker Theater, which will conclude on August 15.

“This is an amazing time of growth and artistic vision for the company,” says Producing Artistic Director Jon Nordgren. “With the new Performing Arts facilities at Cabrillo College and the success of our last two seasons, this is the perfect opportunity for Cabrillo Stage to expand and, ‘make our garden grow.’”

Cabaret
July 23 ~ Aug. 15

Cabrillo Stage’s third summer offering for 2010 is Cabaret, opening July 23rd. Winner of 12 Tony Awards for both the original and revival productions, Cabaret is a brilliantly conceived musical masterpiece.

Set in the early days of the Nazi regime, the Kit Kat Klub is a decadent refuge from the political turmoil outside. The cabaret’s gleefully lecherous emcee offers social commentary between numbers by English expatriate and party girl Sally Bowles, who believes that life is a cabaret.

Director Trevor Little comments, “Cabaret is that rare piece of musical theatre that dares to be important. It dares to be smart and funny and shows us the beauty in one of the ugliest moments in human history. That it does this with hot jazz and sexy dancing girls is part of the miracle of this show.”

“Cabaret has been one of the most requested shows by our audience members,” adds Producing Artistic Director Jon Nordgren
Cabaret is a musical with the book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and then a 1972 film as well winning eight Academy Awards and revived in numerous productions.

Cabaret is based on John Van Druten’s 1951 play I Am a Camera, which in turn was adapted from the novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. Set in 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power, it focuses on nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around the 19-year-old English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with young American writer Cliff Bradshaw.

A sub-plot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a Jewish fruit vendor. Overseeing the action is the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub which serves as a constant metaphor for the tenuous and threatening state of late Weimar Germany throughout the show.

Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue—a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance being introduced by a master of ceremonies, or Emcee (MC).

The first cabaret was opened in 1881 in Montmartre, Paris: Rodolphe Salis’ “cabaret artistique.” Shortly after it was founded, it was renamed Le Chat Noir (The Black Cat). It became a locale in which up-and-coming cabaret artists could try their new acts.

Original Broadway Production

In the original production, staging for Cabaret was unusual for the time. As the audience filled the theater, the curtain was already up, revealing a stage containing nothing but a large mirror reflecting the auditorium. There was no overture; instead, a drum roll and cymbal crash led into the opening number. The juxtaposition of dialogue scenes with songs used as exposition and separate cabaret numbers providing social commentary was a novel concept.

The original Broadway production, directed by Harold Prince and choreographed by Ron Field, opened on November 20, 1966 at the Broadhurst Theatre, eventually transferring first to the Imperial and then the Broadway before finally completing its 1,165-performance run. The opening night cast included Jill Haworth as Sally, Bert Convy as Cliff, Lotte Lenya as Fräulein Schneider, Jack Gilford as Herr Schultz, and Joel Grey as the Emcee.

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CABARET plays July 23 - August 15, Thursday - Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m., weekend matinees at 2 p.m. at Cabrillo Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA. Tickets: 831-479-6154 or online at www.cabrillostage.com – email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Each summer since 1981, Cabrillo Stage has provided thousands of Santa Cruz county residents and visitors with unforgettable, critically acclaimed productions. Cabrillo Stage is noted for innovative sets, beautiful costumes, an outstanding pit orchestra and talented, professional performers. Producing Artistic Director, Jon Nordgren.

Musical numbers include: Willkommen, So What? Don’t Tell Mama, Mein Herr, Perfectly Marvelous, Two Ladies, Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Maybe This Time, Money, Married, If You Could See Her, Cabaret.

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