Cabaret
October 6 - 13, 2024 | No performance Oct 8-9
In here life is beautiful
The landmark Kander/Ebb/Masteroff classic returns to the Weathervane as you’ve never seen it before. Set in 1930s Berlin, ‘Wilkommen’ to the iconic Kit Kat Club. Night after night, patrons are entertained here by its seedy denizens celebrating the dawning of the Jazz Age, while outside, the dawning of a very different age is emerging.
“A stunning musical... this marionette's-eye view of a time and place in our lives that was brassy, wanton, carefree and doomed to crumble is brilliantly conceived.”
– Walter Kerr, The New York Times
“A kill-for-the-ticket triumph.” - The Telegraph
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
Cabaret is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark. www.concordtheatricals.com
This production contains the use of strong language and scenes involving abortion, antisemitism, racism, strong sexual content, violence, suicide, alcohol, and drug use. Recommended for mature audiences only.
Run Time: 2 hours and 45 minutes with one 15-minute intermission.
Group rates available! Contact [email protected] for more information.
Please contact the box office with all ADA seating requests for this production.
Performances
Sunday, October 6 at 5 PM
Monday, October 7 at 7 PM
Thursday, October 10 at 2 PM
Friday, October 11 at 7 PM
PERFORMANCES
Saturday, October 12 at 2 PM
Saturday, October 12 at 7 PM
Sunday, October 13 at 2 PM
Sunday, October 13 at 7 PM
Put down the knitting, the book, and the broom and catch the show before the show! Doors and bar open 60 minutes before every performance of Cabaret.
The Experience
This production is immersive, meaning theatre will always be happening throughout the entire space for the duration of the experience. Actors may interact with you. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please get in touch with our box office. For this experience, a commemorative sticker will be placed on all smartphone camera lenses, as no photos are allowed. All patrons seated on our traditional stage (table, gallery, and balcony sections) must check all personal items (coat, bag, etc.) at coat check for the actors’ safety. For further information, please get in touch with our box office. Also please view our special menu for this production.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Kit Kat Club: Willkommen and Bienvenue! Immerse yourself in the Kit Kat Club and 1930s Berlin. Enjoy live music, impromptu performances and delicious snacks, wine, beer and specialty cocktails for purchase. Free to attend, no reservation needed.
Open Thursday, October 10th at 5:30 PM
CAST
COMING SOON!
Veronica Dunne*
JORGE DONOSO*
NATHANIEL J. RYAN*
Becca Ayers*
Robert H. Fowler*
JESSIE BOOTH*
ETHAN DAVENPORT
Danielle Barrett
Julia Bogdanoff*
Elizabeth Cowperthwaite
NICHOLAS DEAPO
Dylan Isom
JEREMY LLOYD
Victoria Stowe
Payton Thomas
Lew Whitener
Carrie Greenberg
camden dalie keech
Madalyn Sheehy
HANNAH SHOWALTER
Pyper K Williams
CREATIVE TEAM
Ethan Paulini (he/him)
NINTH SEASON
In addition to being the Producing Artistic Director of the Weathervane Theatre, Ethan served as the Associate Artist Director of New York City’s Out of the Box Theatrics. He has national credits as a director, choreographer, actor, writer, and educator. Proud member of Society of Directors and Choreographers (SDC) and Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Actors (SAG/AFTRA) and a member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA). More info at ethanpaulini.com and ethancoaches.com.
Jessica Chen (she/her)
SECOND SEASON
Jessica Chen is a choreographer and Artistic Director of J CHEN PROJECT. Credits: R&H Cinderella (Geva), Jersey Boys (Weathervane), Spring Awakening (MSU), The Messenger (PBD), The Portal (Minetta Lane Theater), New York Fashion Week (MoMA), Restart Stages (Lincoln Center), Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, MACY’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, TEDxSemesteratSea, and World Expo-USA Pavilion in Shanghai. Current: AAPI HEROES (NYC), Beautiful, and Cabaret. www.jessicachen.co
Andrew Morrissey (he/him)
FOURTH SEASON
Andrew Morrissey is a NYC-based pianist, award-winning music director, vocal coach, and composer. Experience includes educational, community and semi-professional theatre in NH, NYC and the DMV area. A NH native, regional credits include Interlakes, Jean’s Playhouse, Winnipesaukee Playhouse and Plymouth State University, where he received a BA in Music. He has an MM in stage music composition from CUA, and his thesis project grew into a fully-fledged staging of Lost In Wonderland with DC’s Pallas Theatre Collective. Current projects include a new musical based on Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray and another on the life of Rasputin. IG: @Andrewmorrisseymusic
Camden Dalie Keech (he/him)
SECOND SEASON
Camden is happy to return to the mountains for a second season. Camden hails from Central Arkansas, where he studied design, directing, and acting. Camden really hopes you enjoy the show!
Rien Schlecht (she/her)
TWENTIETH SEASON
Favorite Weathervane designs include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NH Theatre Award), Guys and Dolls (NH Theatre Award), Eurydice, Buyer and Cellar, and Sweeney Todd (NH Theatre Award). Her New York theatre credits – Out of the Box Theatrics, including the Drama Desk-nominated Baby, several seasons with Theatre For A New Audience, Radio City, Mark Morris Ballet, and many other theatres and TV commercials. She designed The Mysteries at The Flea (Drama Desk nom), The Jinx for HBO, worked on The Woodsman at New World Stages, and the stage and film productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Julie Taymor.
Marley Boone (she/her)
FIRST SEASON
Marley is a costume designer and actor based out of Detroit. She has designed over 40 professional productions spanning Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. All of Marley’s work and career updates can be found at www.marleyboone.com. BFA: Michigan State University.
Jeremy Baldauf
SECOND SEASON
Jeremy returns to Weathervane after eight years away! He is a member of IATSE#481.
Nate Irwin (he/him)
FIRST SEASON
Nate is a sound designer/engineer based out of Indiana. He recently graduated with a BA in Sound for the Performing Arts from Purdue University. This is Nate’s first season at the Weathervane and is enjoying being surrounded by mountains!
Joseph Rivera (he/him)
SECOND SEASON
Jospeh is an Orlando-based sound designer who is glad to return to Weathervane for another season to design. He most recently designed a production of RADIUM GIRLS at Atlanta International School and was an A2 for MOONSHINE AND MISTLETOE at Garden Theatre.
Billy Smith (he/him)
FOURTH SEASON
While this is his fourth season at Weathervane, this is his first season living a full year in beautiful New Hampshire! Originally from Columbus, Ohio, he holds a BFA in Musical Theatre. He is constantly thankful that both the company and the community have taken him in so graciously. Billy is also the scenic charge and production coordinator for this production.
Claire Vogt (she/they)
FIRST SEASON
Claire is a scenic artist based in central Ohio. Having graduated last year with a BFA in Theatre Design and Technology, they enjoy collaborating with others to create amazing art and shows. They have recently been working as a freelance designer and are excited to work at Weathervane this summer!
PYPER K WILLIAMS (she/her)
THIRD SEASON
Pyper Williams is spending her third season here at Weathervane painting away in the shop, bringing to life the sets you see on stage this summer. She studied Acting at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts but now prefers to take a more behind-the-scenes approach with painting sets.
EGYPT DIXON* (she/her)
SEVENTH SEASON
Credits: Atlantic Theater Company (Production Stage Manager): ANATOMY OAS. TFANA (Assistant Stage Manager): FEFU AND HER FRIENDS. Weston Playhouse (Asst Stage Manager): INDECENT. She is excited to return to the White Mountains. She recently received her MFA in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College.
Kenzie Kilroy (she/her)
FIRST SEASON
Kenzie is a theatre professional based in NYC, working as a Stage Manager, Designer, & Assistant Casting Director at serval venues, including The Laurie Beechman, Theatre for a New Audience, The Triad Theater, & National Sawdust (2021- 2024). Other venues include Curious Theatre Company and Miners Alley Playhouse in Denver, CO.
Joe Masteroff
Born in 1919 in Philadelphia, Joe Masteroff had only one dream from infancy: to write for the theatre. After the essential lonely childhood and four-year stint in the Air Force, he came to New York to face his future: book writer or bookseller? Luckily, luck intervened. Before long he had three shows on Broadway bearing his name: The Warm Peninsula starring Julie Harris, and two musicals, She Loves Me and Cabaret, for which he was the book writer. His other work included the libretto for 70, Girls, 70, and Desire Under The Elms and the book and lyrics for Six Wives and Paramour. Thanks to indulgent parents, the New Dramatists, Hal Prince and many others, Joe Masteroff retired and lived in subdued luxury until his death in 2018.
John William Van Druten (June 1, 1901 – December 19, 1957) was an English playwright and theatre director. He began his career in London, and later moved to America, becoming a U.S. citizen. He was known for his plays of witty and urbane observations of contemporary life and society.
Christopher Isherwood was a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. He was homosexual and made this a theme of some of his writing. He was born near Manchester in the north of England in 1904, became a U.S. citizen in 1946, and died at home in Santa Monica, California in January 1986.
JOHN KANDER
John Kander is a Tony, Emmy, and Grammy-winning composer, a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors Award, and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. With frequent collaborator Fred Ebb, he composed the score to dozens of Broadway musicals, including Cabaret, Zorba, Chicago, The Act, Woman of the Year, The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Steel Pier.
Fred Ebb
Fred Ebb was an award-winning lyricist, librettist, and director who frequently and successfully collaborated with composer John Kander. Theatre: Flora the Red Menace; Cabaret; The Happy Time; Zorba; 70, Girls, 70; Chicago; The Act; Woman of the Year; 2×5; The Rink; And the World Goes ’Round – The Kander and Ebb Musical; Kiss of the Spider Woman; and Steel Pier. Film: Cabaret; Norman Rockwell: A Short Subject; Lucky Lady; New York, New York; Funny Lady; Kramer vs. Kramer; A Matter of Time; Places in the Heart; French Postcards; Stepping Out; and the 2003 Academy Award® winner for best picture, Chicago. TV: Liza with a Z; Goldie and Liza Together (starring Goldie Hawn and Liza Minnelli); Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back (starring Frank Sinatra); Baryshnikov on Broadway; An Early Frost; and Liza in London. His last projects included a musical version of The Skin of Our Teeth and Curtains, with book by Rupert Holmes.
Concord Theatricals
Concord Theatricals is the world’s most significant theatrical company, comprising the catalogs of R&H Theatricals, Samuel French, Tams-Witmark and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, plus dozens of new signings each year. Our unparalleled roster includes the work of Irving Berlin, Agatha Christie, George & Ira Gershwin, Marvin Hamlisch, Lorraine Hansberry, Kander & Ebb, Kitt & Yorkey, Ken Ludwig, Marlow & Moss, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anaïs Mitchell, Dominique Morisseau, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Thornton Wilder and August Wilson.
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SPONSORS
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