Photo Flash: First Loot at Kate Shindle in Maltz Jupiter's CABARET
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre presents Kate Shindle in Cabaret, the energetic, politically charged, seductive, and daring Tony Award®-winning production that is ranked among the greatest American musicals. With performances through January 29, the show is set amid the decadence of 1929 Weimar Germany's netherworld and follows the unlikely romance between writer Cliff Bradshaw and performer Sally Bowles. Check out production shots from the show below!
Based on John Van Druten's 1951 play I Am a Camera and featuring a memorable Kander and Ebb score, the entire show takes place in a cabaret, setting the scene for a particularly unique aspect of the production: nearly all of the show's performers sing, dance and play musical instruments.
The actors-as-orchestra concept serves as a metaphor for the show's setting and time: Germany in the Weimar period (1919-1933), when rampant inflation and poverty defined the country as a carefree, anything goes and excessive world that led to Hitler's rise. The concept also allows the production to be re-imagined to focus more on its love stories and politically-fractured heartbreak.A celebrated Broadway veteran, McNicholl has directed musicals such as Billy Elliot and Spamalot, and wrote and directed the musical The It Girl. He is the premiere director given permission to direct this particular revival - the 1998 Broadway revival, which ran for 2,377 performances - of Cabaret. The show went on to become the third longest-running revival in Broadway musical history.Photo Credit: Alicia Donelan
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