Come to the Cabaret at the Lycian Centre
Sugar Loaf, N.Y. Cabaret, winner of 12 Tony awards including Best Musical and Best Revival, is bringing its energy and famous songs to the Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts in Sugar Loaf on Sunday, Jan. 31 at 3 p.m. “Welcome to the Cabaret” sings the emcee of the Kit Kat Club through painted lips, as the people of 1929 Berlin join him. Sally Bowles, a middle-class lass from Chelsea, London, is working as a singer at Berlin’s Kit Kat Club and trying her best to live the thrillingly decadent life which the city is supposed to offer. Into her orbit comes Cliff Bradshaw, a young American writer, and Sally soon moves in with him at the boarding house run by Fraulein Schneider. Their fellow lodgers include the cheerful whore, Fraulein Kost, and the gentle, graying Herr Schultz. As the clouds of war gather, Sally, now pregnant by Cliff, is still determined to show the world what a good time she is having and she will not or cannot hear the noises of Nazism around her. But the others can. After 21 previews, the original Broadway production of Cabaret, directed by Harold Prince and choreographed by Ron Field, opened on Nov. 20, 1966 at the Broadhurst Theatre. The first Broadway revival, again directed by Prince and choreographed by Field, opened on Oct. 22, 1987 at the Imperial Theatre, eventually transferring to the Minskoff to complete its 261-performance run. Joel Grey received star billing as the emcee, with Alyson Reed as Sally, Gregg Edelman as Cliff, Regina Resnik as Fräulein Schneider, and Werner Klemperer as Herr Schultz. The story of Cabaret is perhaps best known as the 1972 musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli in her career role as Sally, Michael York as Cliff and Joel Grey returning to his role as emcee. Cabaret was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 1973, winning eight, including Best Director for Bob Fosse, Best Actress for Liza Minnelli, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Joel Grey, and winning for cinematography, editing, music, art direction and sound. This performance of Cabaret is produced by Windwood Productions, whose credits include national tours of Bye Bye Birdie, Altar Boyz, Little Women, Urban Cowboy The Musical, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Barry Manilow’s Copacabana, Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Tickets for this show are $49 and $45 for adults, and $33.75 for youth (18 and younger) and can be purchased by calling the Lycian Centre Box Office at 845-469-2287, Tuesday through Saturday between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. or on-line at www.LycianCentre.com.