Cabaret
November 30 & December 1, 2018 | Blackman Auditorium
Photographed by Claire Pettit and Dea Davita Krisanda
Set in 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power, Cabaret focuses on the nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and examines the complex socio-political climate that allowed the Nazis to rise to power. The plot revolves around a young American writer, CliffBradshaw, and his relationship with an English cabaret performer, the eccentric Sally Bowles. 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 Emcee, the master of ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub and a metaphor for the ominous political developments in late Weimar Germany.
PSTAFF:
Director: Ben Lebofsky
AD: Dan Koerner
Music Director: Abby Nugent
Assistant Music Director: Grace Brown
Choreographer: Gracie Strickert
Stage Manager: Brandon Halloran
Assistant Stage Managers: Ben Barber & Leah Novelli
Producer: Kelsey Powers
Assistant Producer: Ariana Aguero
Matt Fishman: Band Director
Media Coordinator: Julia Spada
Props: Hunter Gay
Lighting Designer: Chris Gehrke
Assistant Lighting: Ruthie LaMay
Set Designer: Arunima Prasad
Assistant Set Designers: Niki Long and Lindsey Weaver
Costume Designer: Gates Schneider
Assistant Costume: Sarah DeFrancisco and Dani Rowe
CAST:
Emcee- Patrick Kitchen
Sally Bowles- Kaylee Spano
Clifford Bradshaw-Jake Peterson
Fraulein Schneider-Maddie Gershman
Herr Schultz-Daniel Potapov
Fraulein Kost-Nikki Shah
Ernst Ludwig-Scott Bottner
Chanteuse-Amelia Heesen
Two Ladies-Anthony Speros & Sarah Fick
Gorilla-Victoria Lee
Max-Charlie Gribbell
KIT KAT KLUB DANCERS:
Bobby-Nico Marulli
Franz-Charlie Gribbell
Günter-Brandon Waller
Hans-Anthony Speros
Hermann-Joseph Franjieh
Klaus-Nick D’Apice
Kurt-Nick Remillard
Victor-Joseph Straceski
Frenchie-Amelia Heesen
Fritzie-Kalah Karloff
Heidi-Carly Martin
Helga-Brooke Di Spirito
Inga-Victoria Lee
LuLu-Sarah Fick
Rosie-Carolyn Noyes
Texas-Madison McDaniel