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Tryon Festival Theatre, February 27-29 & March 5-8, 2020
Book by Joe Masteroff
Based on the play by John Van Druten
Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Latrelle Bright, director
Julie Jordan Gunn, music director
Elliot Reza Emadian, choreographer

Presented by Lyric Theatre @ Illinois, Dance at Illinois, Illinois Theatre, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Music

Where this story sits in history gives me pause. It does not sit in the heyday of the Weimar Republic; we begin tonight's tale a few months after the devastating financial crash of 1929. It does not sit in the height of Nazi power; we end before the 1930 election, four years before Hitler will become Fuhrer. This story is nestled in the in-between- a space where one can almost imagine, maybe, it could have gone another way.

As you read this, folks behind the stage are readying this space for real people today to embody imagined people of that in-between. They are not so different from you. There are the naïve, the passive, the respectable, the opportunistic, the fervent, the optimistic... and over the course of only a few months, they find themselves caught up in what we refer to as a historical moment that I suppose, to them, felt like just another day. I suppose that is what all the in-betweens feel like.

One could argue that we are always in an in-between- in between one historical moment and another. And, if this is the case, I wonder... what is required of us to stave off unimaginable horrors we will never know?

                                                                                           -Latrelle Bright, director
Press Coverage

Come to the 'Cabaret' and see 3 UI departments collaborate for first time in 12 years

Cast
EMCEE- ​Corey Barlow
SALLEY BOWLES- Anna Benoit​
CLIFFORD BRADSHAW- Connor Kamradt
FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER- Erica Cruz-Hernandez
HERR SCHULTZ- Fabian Alejandro Guerrero Jr.*
ERNST LUDWIG- Theo Mynka
​FRAULEIN KOST- Amy Toruno
KIT KAT KREW- Aidra Crawley, Nicholas Hittle, Nia Kahn, Rachel Maramba, Caroline McKinzie, Gabriel Ortiz, Logan Piker, Palash Ranjit, Symone Sanz, Aliah Teclaw

*Fight Captain
"Tomorrow" sung by Cecilia Vermillion, who appears courtesy of the Central Illinois Youth Chorus


Production Team
MUSICAL DIRECTOR-
Julie Jordan Gunn
​STAGE DIRECTOR- Latrelle Bright
CHOREOGRAPHER- Elliot Reza Emadian
SCENIC DESIGNER- Eleni Lukaszczyk
COSTUME DESIGNER- Samantha Abigail Padillo
LIGHTING DESIGNER- Alena Samoray
SOUND DESIGNERS/ENGINEERS- Alec LaBau, Dominick Rosales
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER- David Steritt*
HEAD OF MUSIC STAFF- Michael Tilley
MUSICAL PREPARATION- Aaron Ames, Cadis Ying-Jie Lee, Michael McAndrew
SUPERTITLE OPERATION- Sydney Hoel, Lauren Falk
DIALECT AND TEXT COACH- Allison Moody
DRAMATURG- Alexis Webb
STAGE MANAGER-
SUPERTITLES- Ben Mathew, Neil Weislow, Jeanette Williams

*Member of Scenic Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)
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