Marty Markowitz Joins KPAC's Thalia Follies: A Political Cabaret 4/16

Kingsborough Performing Arts Center's season of world-class Dance, Music, Theatre, and Family Shows continues with New York City's only political cabaret. Symphony Space's Thalia Follies: A Political Cabaret comes to KPAC on Saturday April 16, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will make a special guest-starring appearance when he sings his "Bike Lane Cantata!"

"The Thalia Follies will be sure to be our most fun-filled musical event of the season," stated Anna Becker, Kingsborough Performing Arts Center's Executive Director. "The Follies creates rich material taken from current events, and combines it with musical favorites, virtuosic Broadway performers. The charm and wit of celebrated host Isaiah Sheffer never fails to evoke gales of laughter from the audience. This special edition with guest star Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz makes for a completely unique one-night-only engagement."

THALIA FOLLIES: A POLITICAL CABARET

Symphony Space's Thalia Follies: A Political Cabaret is New York City's only political cabaret series, featuring songs and comedy sketches on all the issues New Yorkers hold dear. Always funny and often moving, these original evenings created by Symphony Space's Founding Artistic Director Isaiah Sheffer with producer Martin Sage are guaranteed to get you talking and laughing. Sheffer is joined by a cast of cabaret and Broadway stars such as Ivy Austin, David Buskin, Nora York, The Chalks, and more. Musical Director, Lanny Meyers.

This special edition of The Follies will draw on material from recent Follies productions such as The Midterm Shuffle and Divided We Stumble, as well as classic Follies songs and comedy sketches and brand new material that turn the day's issues and events into insight and laughter.

Isaiah Sheffer is the founding artistic director of Symphony Space, as well as host and director of Selected Shorts live at Symphony Space, on tour, and on public radio nationwide. He is also a co-creator of The Thalia Follies political cabaret.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Thalia Follies: A Political Cabaret

Saturday, April 16th at 8 p.m. Tickets: $25

Tickets are now on sale, and available as follows:

In Person: Kingsborough Performing Arts Center, Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY.

Box Office Hours: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday
By Phone: (718) 368-5596

Online: www.kcckpac.org
There is ample, free parking on the campus.

Upcoming Shows: Soledad Barrio's Noche Flamenca, Classical Music For A Changing World with The Colorado Quartet.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Kingsborough Community College Founded in 1963, Kingsborough Community College, a college of the City University of New York (CUNY), has provided half a million students with liberal arts, applied science, and career education. Our 70-acre waterfront campus is on Manhattan Beach, at the extreme southern end of Brooklyn. The college's mission is to respond to the educational, cultural, and economic needs of our students and our community.

Kingsborough Performing Arts Center brings artistically and culturally diverse, multi-disciplinary performances from masters of the form to the varied communities within and surrounding the college. We strive to create an environment where the arts are an accessible and integral part of life, and the Arts Center is a community gathering place for interaction and inspiration. We offer performances in theatre, dance, literature, and music, as well as family shows. Our schooltime shows welcome classes from local public and private schools, a majority of which serves economically-disadvantaged or special needs populations.

The 2010-2011 season reflects KPAC'S commitment to present world-class artists in music, dance, theatre, literature, and family shows in exclusive Brooklyn engagements. The season of classic and classical performing arts offers performances by companies who set the standard in their field, such as Soledad Barrio's Noche Flamenca from Spain, St. Petersburg Classic Ballet Theatre from Russia, London's Tall Stories, and the upper west side's Symphony Space. Prices are a fraction of what audiences would pay elsewhere and several sneak previews of upcoming premieres will be offered free of charge.