Upcoming: Cabaret, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, February 23 - March 4

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presents the spring musical

Cabaret

score by Kander and Ebb

February 23 - March 4, Thursdays - Saturdays at 7 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.
directed by Molly Wissinger
MacTheatre, McCallum Fine Arts Academy, Sunshine

Tickets $6 for students, $10 for seniors, $15 for general admission (click to purchase on-line)

Based on John Van Druten‘s 1951 play I Am a Camera. 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 the 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. An experience on par with any musical we’ve ever produced is waiting when you enter the Cabaret. Rated PG-13

Upcoming: Excuse Me While I Change, Michelle Cheney at the City Theatre, February 6 - 7

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Austin musical comedienne Michelle Cheney takes to the stage for her premier cabaret show

Excuse Me While I Change

February 6 and 7. Saturday and Sunday, 8 p.m.
City Theatre, Airport Rd at 38 1/2 Street

Michelle Cheney, singer, actress, comedienne, and Austin original (we like to think so) brings her “musical take” on life and its changes to The City Theatre February 6 and 7 at 8 p.m. for the premier presentation of her one-woman show Excuse Me While I Change.

Her comedic, yet heart-warming show features music from some of Broadway’s greatest composers. Accompanied by musical director Kevin Oliver, Michelle will spend a fun and entertaining evening taking a look at changes in herself, relationships, growing up in conservative Salt Lake City, along with a humorous take on challenges a “non-native born Texan” encounters in the Lone Star State.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Upcoming: An Evening with Edith Head, Susan Claasen sponsored by Austin Cabaret Theatre, UT Lab Theatre, October 17-18

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Austin Cabaret Theatre presents

An Evening with Edith Head
a one-woman show by Susan Claasen

Saturday, October 17, 8 p.m.
Sunday, October 18, 2 p.m.
UT Lab Theatre, 23rd and Jacinto

“There’s nothing like a row of Oscars® for putting the fear of God into an actress who thinks she knows everything about dress designing.”
-Edith Head

Susan Claasen, who stars as legendary Hollywood designer Edith Head in A Conversation with Edith Head will appear as part of Austin Cabaret Theatre’s 2009/2010 Season, conduct master classes for University of Texas theatre students and give two public performances on October 17th and 18th.

A Conversation with Edith Head is a feast of delicious behind-the-scenes stories about Hollywood’s greatest stars that provides an intimate portrait of Hollywood’s legendary costume designer. In her six decades of costume design, Edith Head worked on more than eleven hundred films; dressed the greatest stars of Hollywood; received 35 Academy Award® nominations, and won an unprecedented eight Oscars®. Young fans of Pixar’s The Incredibles will recognized the superhero outfitter Edna Mode as an affectionate tribute to the legendary Hollywood costume designer.




Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .

Audio Programs: Off Stage and On The Air, Lisa Schepp, KOOP-FM

Lisa Schepp is now producing a weekly program on Austin musical theatre, Mondays at 1 p.m., interviewing a production member and spinning musical numbers from the recorded canon. All programs broadcast by KOOP FM (91.7) are available as podcasts or streaming video via her blog:

Latest, on June 8: Nunsense (opening June 11 at the City Theatre)

Click to link to earlier programs produced to date:

Love, Janis -- June 1 (playing at the Zach Scott Theatre)

The Jigglewatts -- May 25

The Fantasticks -- May 17 with Don Toner (playing until June 28 at Austin Playhouse)

Musical Theatre in Austin - May 10 with Latifah Taormina of Austin Circle of Theatres and Stuart Moulton of Austin Cabaret Theatre

Golf, the Musical - May 3 with Director and Cast Member Joel Blum and Texarts co-founder and executive producer, Todd Dellinger

Pilot program - April 29 with Stuart Moulton of Austin Cabaret Theatre