 |
|
|
|||
|
 |
CAMPUS NEWS | |
||
|
|
calendars | campus news | directories | site index | |
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
» Campus News Bulletin Board | | |
|
||
| Cabaret Comes to Wesleyan released: 10/29/01 |
 |
| Cabaret, the musical directed by Bess Park-Reynolds, continues West Virginia Wesleyan’s Theatre Arts Departments 2001-2002 season in the Atkinson Auditorium November 1st through the 4th at 8:00 p.m. This groundbreaking musical uses the decadent and vulgar cabaret to mirror the 1930s German society’s slide toward Nazism. Cabaret tells the story of Clifford Bradshaw, played by Peter Thompson, an American writer who comes to Berlin at the dawn of the Hitler era. He becomes intrigued with the characters that inhabit the Kit Kat Klub, the sex driven, vaguely dangerous underworld of the preNazi Germany where each night a jazz-driven “girlie show” is served up to debauched audiences. Cliff finds himself involved with the flamboyant, British club singer Sally Bowles, played by Erica Scanlon, and ends up taking her as his roommate. As he struggles to write a novel, he witnesses the blindness and self-deception of a group of people who allow Nazism to slowly encompass their lives and take control while they do nothing. As the play moves along, Cliff's landlady Fraulein Schneider, played by Sarabeth Wilson, decides to break her engagement to a Jewish man Herr Schultz played by T.J. Faulkner, because she fears she will lose her license if she does not. About the show Scanlon says, “Cabaret is a abstract, and affective approach to looking at Nazi-Germany. The phrase "In here, life is beautiful" is repeated in the show, and I think it really captures the meaning of it. Not only does it allow the audience to reflect on what was going on in the world, but it invites you to look at your life and realize that so many of our troubles are rather trivial.” The story is moved along by the Cabaret Emcee, played by Michael Sniffen, who comments on the story in a series of increasingly pointed nightclub songs. This new, innovative, production of Cabaret” says Sniffen, “is at times shocking, at times touching and always thoroughly thought provoking. It is a social statement on a grand scale as well as a curious peek into the taboo Berlin nightlife on the cusp of the Nazi takeover.” This production also features Gregory Mach from Elkins as Ernst, and Nicole Leedy as Frauliene Kost. Tickets can be reserved by contacting the box office at (304) 473-8037 or e-mailing lefebvre@wvwc.edu. Tickets are $4.00 for Adults, $2.00 for students and seniors, and $1 for West Virginia Wesleyan College Students with a valid ID. Please be aware that this show is for mature audiences. |