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Cabaret

Kander & Ebb's Musical Masterpiece May 12 – Jun 28, 2015
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Willkommen to the Kit Kat Club, the hottest nightclub in seedy, prewar Berlin; here, life is beautiful.

American writer Cliff Bradshaw travels to Berlin searching for inspiration. He finds it in English club performer Sally Bowles and they begin a torrid affair. However, outside their door, the Nazis' impending rise to power heralds a brutal end to their decadent way of life.

Starring Wesley Taylor (NBC's Smash, Broadway's The Addams Family and Rock of Ages) as The Emcee and Barrett Wilbert Weed (Heathers: The Musical) as Sally Bowles.

Featuring the treasured songs "Maybe This Time," "Willkommen," "Don't Tell Mama" and the title song, Kander and Ebb's Tony Award®-winning masterpiece graces the Signature stage for the first time in twenty years.

“A stunning musical... brilliantly conceived. -The New York Times

Music John Kander
Lyrics Fred Ebb
Book Joe Masteroff

Performance Information

  • Content Warnings

    Please note that this show contains full nudity, Nazi imagery, theatrical haze and cigarette smoking. 

Specialty Nights

Pride Night

June 5, 2015

Discussion Night

June 9, 2015

Sponsors

Cast Members

Shayna Blass

Shayna Blass

Kit Kat Girl

SIGNATURE: The Mystery of Love & Sex (Charlotte), Cabaret, Haunted Hotel. DC AREA: Rep Stage: Technicolor Life; Forum Theatre: Passion Play; Arena Stage: Fiddler on the Roof; Kennedy Center TYA: Elephant & Piggie; Theater J: Yentl, Another Way Home; Studio Theatre: Tribes, Rocky Horror Picture Show; Keegan Theatre: Rabbit Hole, Cabaret, Spelling Bee, RENT; Adventure Theatre: Big Nate (world premiere); Imagination Stage: Seussical the Musical; Source Festival: Uses of Enchantment. EDUCATION: BA from American University. @ShaynaBlass www.shaynablass.com 

Kurt Boehm

Kurt Boehm

Kit Kat Boy

he/him/his SIGNATURE: Assassins, Billy Elliot, Crazy for You, West Side Story, Cabaret, Les Misérables, Kiss of the Spider Woman, One Red Flower. NATIONAL TOUR: Born for This. DC AREA: Arena Stage: American Prophet, Carousel, Fiddler On The Roof, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, She Loves Me; Monumental Theatre Company: Daddy Long Legs (Helen Hayes Nomination - Outstanding Lead Actor);Olney Theatre Center: South Pacific, Godspell, How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, A Chorus Line, The Producers; Ford's Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors; The Kennedy Center: Phantom Tollbooth; Keegan Theatre: Chicago, The Full Monty; Imagination Stage: Lyle, The Crocodile; Adventure Theatre MTC: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Goodnight Moon, Ella Enchanted; Red Branch Theatre: The Last Five Years. EDUCATION: CUA, BM. @kurtb617

Mark Chandler

Richard

SIGNATURE: CabaretXanadu, Giant, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Glory Days, Merrily We Roll Along. TOURS: NETworks: Wizard of Oz; ATMTC: Five Little Monkeys. REGIONAL: Les Misérables, Forever Plaid, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Fiddler on the Roof, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, The Normal Heart (Theatre Tampa Bay Awards, Outstanding Ensemble), Reefer Madness (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Musical). TV: ABC: The View, Season 14 Episode 1. EDUCATION: Catholic University of America, Bachelor of Music 2009.

Jordan DeBona

Kit Kat Boy

SIGNATURE: Cabaret. REGIONAL: Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera: We the People, Pittsburgh Skyblast; Pittsburgh Musical Theatre: West Side Story (Shark), High School Musical, Fiddler on the Roof, Children of Eden; Pittsburgh Opera: Carmen. EDUCATION: Point Park University, BA, Musical Theatre.

Jamie Eacker

Jamie Eacker

Kit Kat Girl

SIGNATURE: Titanic, Freaky Friday, Girlstar, The Fix, Cabaret, Elmer Gantry, The Threepenny Opera, Beaches, Spin, Company, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Xanadu, Hairspray, Chess, Revenge of the Understudies, A Matt Conner’s Christmas. OFF-BROADWAY: Elephant and Piggie’s: We Are In A Play! NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL TOUR: Phoenix Entertainment: Grease (China), The Kennedy Center: Phantom Tollbooth, E&P: We Are In A Play! DC AREA: Shakespeare Gala as Elizabeth McGovern; ArtsCentric: Delilah (Delilah); Teatro101: The Wild Party (Queenie); Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Studio Theatre: Grey Gardens, Carrie; Totem Pole: Leader of The Pack; Washington Savoyards: The Music Man; Toby’s Dinner Theatre: Hairspray, Aida, The Wizard of Oz, George M! EDUCATION: AMDA of NYC www.jamieeacker.com

Rick Foucheux

Herr Schultz

DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: Awake and Sing, Fiddler on the Roof; Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Stupid Fucking Bird, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Cooking With Elvis; Theater J: Freud’s Last Session, Talley’s Folly, The Odd Couple; Arena Stage: Mother Courage, Ah, Wilderness!, Death of a Salesman, Born Yesterday; Studio Theatre: The Apple Family Plays, Take Me Out; Shakespeare Theatre: Twelfth Night, The Government Inspector, An Enemy of the People; Round House Theatre: Glengarry Glen Ross, The Cherry Orchard, Pride and Prejudice; Folger Theatre: Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest. AWARDS: The Helen Hayes’ Robert Prosky Award, The Lunt Fontanne Fellowship.

Colleen Hayes

Colleen Hayes

Kit Kat Girl

SIGNATURE: West Side Story, Cabaret (2016 Helen Hayes Outstanding Ensemble), Diner. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: A Chorus Line (Sheila, 2014 Helen Hayes Outstanding Resident Musical); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Hedy LaRue). NATIONAL TOUR: Catch Me If You Can. REGIONAL: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse: Crazy For You (Patsy); Fulton Theatre: The Producers, Cinderella; Papermill Theatre: The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Rent (Maureen); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. EDUCATION: James Madison University. 

Naomi Jacobson

Fraulein Schneider

SIGNATURE: Cabaret, God of Carnage, Available Light. DC AREA:  Shakespeare Theatre Company (Affiliated Artist), Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Company Member), Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, Ford's Theatre, Wolf Trap Opera, Folger Theatre, Round House Theatre, Theater J, Olney Theatre Center. REGIONAL: Guthrie Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Arizona Theatre Co., Milwaukee Repertory, Delaware Theatre Co., Berkshire Theatre Festival, L.A. Theatreworks. FILM/TV: Homicide, Her Father’s Eyes (A&E), I Fall to Pieces. VOICEOVER: Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, NPR, PBS. AWARDS: Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship (with Lynn Redgrave), 3 Helen Hayes Awards, 14 Helen Hayes nominations, Individual Artist Grant - DC Commission on the Arts. Member: Actors Arena.

Maria Rizzo

Maria Rizzo

Fraulein Kost

she/her SIGNATURE: Into the Woods, She Loves Me (Ilona - Helen Hayes Award), A Chorus Line, Assassins, Grand Hotel, Crazy For You, A Little Night Music, The Gulf (world premiere), West Side Story, Cabaret, Gypsy (Louise - Helen Hayes Nom), Spin (world premiere), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Xanadu. DC THEATRE: Arena Stage: Anything Goes (Erma - Helen Hayes Award), Fiddler on the Roof; Olney Theatre Center: Evita, Grease!; Keegan Theatre: Chicago (Roxie - Helen Hayes Award), Cabaret (Sally Bowles - Helen Hayes Nom), The Sunshine Boys, Spring Awakening; Studio 2ndStage: Carrie the Musical; 1stStage: Bat Boy; Toby's Dinner Theatre: Hairspray. REGIONAL: Arkansas Rep Theatre: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. EDUCATION: The Catholic University of America, BM, Musical Theatre. @mariarizz9o

Rachel Schur

Kit Kat Girl

SIGNATURE: And the Curtain Rises. TOURS: Jersey Boys: Francine; Phoenix Entertainment: FAME!; NETworks Tours: A Chorus Line. REGIONAL: The North Carolina Theatre: A Chorus Line: Val. DC AREA: Toby’s Dinner Theatre: West Side Story, Oklahoma!; MetroStage: CabarYAY. EDUCATION: James Madison University, BA, Musical Theatre.

Bobby Smith

Bobby Smith

Ernst

he/him SIGNATURE: No Place to Go, She Loves Me, Midnight at The Never Get, Assassins, Grand Hotel, Passion, Light Years, A Little Night Music, Titanic, Simply Sondheim, Company, Midwestern Gothic, Road Show, Threepenny Opera, Disney's Freaky Friday, La Cage aux Folles (Helen Hayes Award), Spin (Helen Hayes Award). BROADWAY: Crazy for You. OFF-BROADWAY: Forever Plaid, The World Goes ‘Round, Of Thee I Sing. NATIONAL TOURS: Brigadoon, The World Goes ‘Round. DC AREA: Theater J: Two Jews Walk Into a War; Studio Theatre: Fun Home, A Class Act; The Long Christmas Ride Home; Caroline, or Change; Grey Gardens; Reefer Madness; Jerry Springer: The Opera; Ford’s Theatre: Elmer Gantry, Liberty Smith, 1776, Violet; Metrostage: Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Helen Hayes Award). AWARDS: 2018 Anderson/Hopkins award.

Wesley Taylor

The Emcee

BROADWAY: The Addams Family (original cast); Rock of Ages (original cast, Theatre World Award and Outer Critics Circle nomination). OFF-BROADWAY: Little Miss Sunshine; Rock of Ages (NY premiere). REGIONAL: American Conservatory Theater, Barrington Stage, American Repertory Theatre, New York Stage

Jessica Thorne

Kit Kat Girl

SIGNATURE: The Threepenny Opera. DC AREA: Shakespeare Theatre: The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Studio Theatre: The Rocky Horror Show; Kennedy Center: My Fair Lady in Concert, Defiant Requiem; Synetic Theatre: Home of the Soldier, Rough-Faced Girl, Open World; Imagination Stage: Double Trouble Workshop, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (u/s).

Joseph Tudor

Kit Kat Boy

SIGNATURE: Cabaret, Gypsy (Angie). INTERNATIONAL TOUR: Phantom of the Opera. REGIONAL: A Chorus Line (Mark), High School Musical, among others. CHOREOGRAPHY: Multiple studios and schools throughout New York, and Maryland as well as New Jersey where he is on staff at Premiere Dance of Hillsborough. EDUCATION: BFA Dance, Shenandoah Conservatory. Represented by MSA Agency.

Barrett Wilbert Weed

Sally Bowles

BROADWAY: Lysistrata Jones. OFF-BROADWAY: New World Stages: Bare (Nadia), Heathers: The Musical (Veronica Sawyer); Atlantic Theater Company: Found (Denise). EDUCATION: Walnut Hill School, BFA Elon University. AWARDS: Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nominations for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for Heathers: The Musical.

Gregory Woodell

Cliff

BROADWAY: The Lyons; Cymbeline. OFF-BROADWAY: Vineyard Theatre: The Lyons (world premiere, Nicky Silver); Encores!: Girl Crazy (Director Jerry Zaks). DC AREA: Arena Stage/McCarter Theatre:Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (title role, world premiere, Ken Ludwig); Shakespeare Theatre: As You Like It, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, Othello, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Cyrano, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Don Carlos, Richard II, Merchant of Venice, Country Wife, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. REGIONAL: Philadelphia Theatre Company: Some Men (world premiere, Terrence McNally); Mark Taper Forum: School of Night (American premiere, Peter Whelan); Huntington Theatre: Miracle at Naples (world premiere, David Grimm); Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Henry VIII (Henry VIII). TV: 30 Rock, Person of Interest, The Good Wife. EDUCATION: The Juilliard School.

Creative Team

John Kander

Music

THEATRE: A Family Affair; With Fred Ebb: Flora the Red Menace, Cabaret (Tony Award®), Zorba, The Happy Time, 70 Girls 70_, Chicago, The Act, Woman of the Year (Tony Award®), The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman (Tony Award®), Steel Pier, Curtains, The Scottsboro Boys; With Greg Pierce: The Landing, Kid Victory. TV/FILM: Liza with a Z (Emmy Award), HBO’s Liza Minnelli’s Steppin Out (Emmy Award), Funny Lady (Oscar nomination for Best song), Lucky Lady, New York, New York, Stepping Out, Chicago (Oscar nomination for Best song). SOLO COMPOSITIONS: An Early Frost, Breathing Lessons, The Boys Next Door, Kramer vs. Kramer, Blue Skies Again and Places of the Heart “A Letter from Sullivan Ballou” (for Renee Fleming).

Fred Ebb

Lyrics

Fred Ebb was a lyricist for a series of musical theater successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb. Ebb graduated from New York University and Columbia University. In 1962 he teamed with John Kander to write Flora the Red Menace, produced by Hal Prince, directed by George Abbott, and with book by George Abbott and Robert Russell, in which Liza Minnelli made her Broadway debut. Kander and Ebb wrote material for Minnelli and Chita Rivera, and produced material for their appearances live and on television. Their musicals Cabaret and Chicago have been made into films.

Joe Masteroff

Book

Joe Masteroff is best known as the book writer for the Tony Award®-winning Cabaret. Coming to New York from Philadelphia after attending Temple University and serving in the U.S. Air Force, he has been represented in New York City by the play The Warm Peninsula, the libretto for an operatic version of Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms and the book and lyrics for a recent production of Six Wives at the York Theatre Company.

Jon Kalbfleisch

Music Direction

SIGNATURE (Resident Music Director) Ragtime, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, She Loves Me, Broadway in the Park (Wolf Trap), Simply Sondheim, A Chorus Line, Assassins, Passion, Crazy for You, A Little Night Music, West Side Story, Cabaret, Sunday in the Park, Gypsy, Company, Hairspray, Saturday Night, Side by Side, Sunset Boulevard, Show Boat, Anyone Can Whistle, Spider Woman, Merrily, Into the Woods, Pacific Overtures, Elegies, Allegro, Follies, 110 in the Shade, Putting It Together, Forum, Sweeney Todd, Wings. BROADWAY: Ambassador Theatre: The Visit (Actor's Fund Benefit), Marius Company: Les Misérables (Associate Conductor). DC AREA: Kennedy Center: First You Dream; National Theatre, Warner Theatre, Round House Theatre, Everyman Theatre. OTHER: Carnegie Hall, Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony. TV: Celebration of the Arts (Executive Producer), Good Morning America. AWARDS: Grammy nomination; Bernstein MASS, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, pianist; Anderson-Hopkins Award; ten Helen Hayes Awards and 30 nominations; Distinguished Alumni Award, Cameron University. EDUCATION: Master of Music, Southern Methodist University.

Stephanie Junkin

Production Assistant

SIGNATURE: Production Assistant: Gypsy, Miss Saigon, Shakespeare’s R&J, Dreamgirls, The Hollow; Crew: Hairspray, The Boy Detective Fails, The Lieutenant of Inishmore. DC AREA: Stage Manager: Forum Theatre, The Hub Theatre, The Inkwell, WSC Bard, Source Festival. INTERN: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London.

Enhance Your Experience

Cabaret Backstage Tours

Willkommen to the Kit Kat Club, here, life is beautiful. Leave your troubles outside and join one of the Cabaret actors as they take you on an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Kander & Ebb’s musical masterpiece. First, watch a video with interviews from the director and designers. Learn about their inspirations and then dive into the history of decadent 1930s Berlin. Afterwards, journey backstage with your actor guide to see how the Kit Kat Club comes to life. Discover how Signature makes theatrical magic and unearth a few show secrets in this immersive Cabaret experience. Saturdays at 5PM, May 23 – June 20 | 30 minutes | $10 per person

Cabaret at The Signature Shop

Bring Home Cabaret

Relive your Cabaret experience long after the final curtain with a delightful array of t-shirts, books, coffee mugs, posters, keychains and CDs. The Signature Shop is open before, during and after the show. Take something home today to remember that life is a Cabaret, old chum!

Make it Wunderbar at the Kit Kat Club's In-Theatre Bar

Enhance your Cabaret experience and get a drink on stage at the Kit Kat In-Theatre Bar!

Kit Kat Club Special – Pineapple Old Fashioned 

Also serving beer and wine, plus a limited selection of liquor. Add the Souvenir Beer Tumbler for only $12 or Souvenir Wine Tumbler for only $9 with drink purchase. The Kit Kat Club In-Theatre Bar only accepts credit cards and closes 5 minutes before curtain. The lobby bar remains open.

Currywurst, Brezel and More at Ali's Bar

Head to Ali’s Bar in The Mead Lobby on the 2nd floor to enjoy a Cabaret inspired menu.

Don’t Wait in Line. Pre-Order Intermission Food and Drinks! Grab an order form at the bar and pre-order food and drinks for intermission. A favorite treat you’ll want to make sure you add—our warm housemade cookies.

Splendid…the revival’s heart beats especially tenderly… marvelously high-energy.

The Washington Post

An astounding and powerful production.

DC Metro Theater Arts

A mesmerizing and immersive show… In Signature, life truly is beautiful.

BroadwayWorld

Signature Theatre’s Cabaret is a must-see.

Maryland Theatre Guide

With such a dramatic resolution and such memorable performances, this Kit Kat Club won’t soon be forgotten.

DCist

Outstanding

Washington City Paper

Flawless… A definitive Cabaret.

CurtainUp

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