KC Rep Adds CABARET To 10-11 Season Lineup
By: BWW
News Desk Mar. 18, 2011
Eric Rosen, artistic director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre, has added CABARET to the Rep's 2010-11 season lineup. Rosen will direct the Tony Award-winning musical written by two of America's most distinguished and prolific songwriters, Kansas City native John Kander and Fred Ebb, with a book by Joe Masteroff. CABARET will run March 18-April 10, 2011 at Spencer Theatre.
Set in a seedy nightclub in 1931 Berlin, as the Nazis are rising to power, CABARET focuses on the complicated relationship between a young English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and an American writer Clifford Bradshaw.
Written in 1966, CABARET is considered by many to be one of the best musicals written by Kander and Ebb. The original Broadway production, directed by their frequent collaborator Harold Prince, was nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning 8, including for best musical, best composer and lyricist, and best director.
Additional Kander and Ebb musicals include ZORBA (1958), CHICAGO (1975), KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (1992), FOSSE (1999), CURTAINS (2006) and THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS (2010). The show tunes "Cabaret", "New York, New York", "Maybe This Time" and "All That Jazz" are among their most well-known songs.
In addition to being awarded numerous Tonys, Oscars, Grammys and Emmys, Kander and Ebb were honored in 1998 by the Kennedy Center for their contributions to theatre and music. As Kander stated in a February 1997 article with Marilyn Stasio in American Theatre, "if you're going to write on a canvas of some size, the Broadway theatre is still the only place that offers you that opportunity."
Kansas City Rep's complete 2010-11 season includes:
SAVED
Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman, Book and Lyrics by John Dempsey and Rinne Groff
Directed by Gary Griffin
September 10-October 3, 2010 at Spencer Theatre
Harriet Jacobs
Adapted by Lydia Diamond from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
Directed by Jessica Thebus
October 22-November 21, 2010 at Copaken Stage
A CHRISTMAS CAROL - 30TH Anniversary ProductionDirected by Kyle Hatley
November 19-December 26, 2010 at Spencer Theatre
ANOTHER AMERICAN: ASKING AND TELLING
Written and Performed by Marc Wolf
January 14-February 6, 2011 at Spencer Theatre
CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION - Midwest Premiere
By Annie Baker
Directed by Kyle Hatley
February 18-March 20, 2011 at Copaken Stage
CABARET
Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb, Book by Joe Masteroff
Directed by Eric Rosen
March 18-April 10, 2011 at Spencer Theatre
PEER GYNT
By Henrik Ibsen
Adapted and Directed by David Schweizer
April 22-May 22, 2011 at Copaken Stage
ABOUT KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE
Now in its 46th season, Kansas City Repertory Theatre is its region's only member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and serves as the professional theatre in residence at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). The Rep produces mainstage plays and special events at Spencer Theatre On the UMKC campus and Copaken Stage located in downtown Kansas City. Kansas City Rep employs more than 250 professional artists, technicians and administrators, and serves more than 100,000 patrons annually.
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