A.R.T. Presents CABARET Starring Amanda Palmer 8/31-10/29

American Repertory Theater announces the cast and creative team for CABARET by Kander and Ebb, directed by Steven Bogart and starring Amanda Palmer as the Emcee

"There was a cabaret, and there was a Master-of-Ceremonies and there was a city called Berlin in a country called Germany. It was the end of the world . . . and I was dancing with Sally Bowles and we were both asleep. . . . "- Cliff in CABARET

WHAT: The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) opens its 2010/11 Season with Kander and Ebb's CABARET, directed by Steven Bogart, with musical direction by Lance Horne and movement by Steven Mitchell Wright, starring Amanda Palmer as the Emcee. Set and costume design is by David Israel Reynoso,lighting design by Nick Vargelis, and sound design by Clive Goodwin.

WHEN: August 31 - October 29, 2010

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays at 7:30pm

Fridays at 7:30pm and 10:30pm

Performances will begin promptly at the times listed above;
Klub doors open half hour before showtime.
No performances Saturday through Monday.

WHERE: OBERON, 2 Arrow Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge

TICKETS: Begin at $25. Student rush $15. Seniors $10 off regular ticket price.

Group Rates available.

Single tickets are currently on sale to A.R.T. Members only, will be available to the general public on August 3rd. Tickets can be purchased on line at www.AmericanRepertoryTheater.org, by phone at 617-547-8300, or in person at the A.R.T. Box Office, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

For more information on Memberships go to http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/membership

RATING: The production contains nudity, simulated sex, and drug use. Recommended for 16 and older, unless accompanied by an adult.

DETAILS:

Take your seat at the Kit Kat Klub, the perfectly marvelous cabaret where singer Sally Bowles meets writer Cliff Bradshaw. As the two pursue a life of pleasure in Weimar Berlin, the world outside the Klub begins to splinter. Presiding over it all is singer, songwriter, and former Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer as the Kit Kat Klub's magnetic Emcee, with Aly Trasher as Sally Bowles and Matt Wood as Cliff Bradshaw. The cast also includes Remo Airaldi as Herr Schultz, David Costa as Ernst Ludwig, Claire Davies as Fraulein Kost, Thomas Derrah as Fraulein Schmidt, and Jeremy Geidt as Max, the Klub Owner; as well as Renee-Marie Brewster, Lucille Duncan, Tamara Hickey, Eric Johnson, Jordy Lievers, and Gaetano Pugliese as the Kit Kat Dancers, and Annika Franklin, Chris Thomas, and Edward Walsh as the Ensemble.

ABOUT THE PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS:

Amanda Palmer is a performer, director, and composer who is best known for her role as front woman and pianist for the internationally acclaimed punk cabaret band The Dresden Dolls. She grew up writing and directing her own original plays and has always kept one foot in the theater world, making her living between the years of 1997-2003 as a living statue street performer in Harvard Square, known as the "Eight Foot Bride." After signing with a major label and releasing three albums with The Dresden Dolls, Palmer went solo. In 2008, with the help of fellow pianist and producer Ben Folds, Amanda released her critically hailed solo effort "Who Killed Amanda Palmer" along with an accompanying art book of the same name with short stories by writer (and husband-to-be) Neil Galman. She recently returned from a two-year-long touring cycle that took her (and a troupe of Butoh-based Australian performance artists known as The Danger Ensemble) through Europe, North America, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. She wrapped up her year at Symphony Hall for a historic New Year's celebration in which Palmer was possibly the first pianist to put Tchaikovsky, Nine Inch Nails, and Lady Gaga in the same program. She has won numerous Boston Music Awards (including Best Female Vocalist), has been included on the AfterEllen.com's list of "hot 100" celebrities, and has been named "The Most Stylish Woman in Boston" by the Boston Globe. Palmer also tends a widely read blog and Twitter feed and has been dubbed "The Social Media Queen of Rock N Roll" by The Huffington Post.

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