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The Return of “Cabaret in Captivity”

Today (January 27) is Holocaust Remembrance Day and as it happens I have timely related news to report: friend Edward Einhorn of Untitled Theatre Company #61 is reviving their historical revue Cabaret in Captivity. I have reviewed the show for Chelsea Community News — go here for my impressions.

The details:

Starting on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January spanning through Yom HaShoah in April…

Songs and sketches written in Terezín/Theresienstadt, from Lisa Peschel’s anthology Performing Captivity, Performing Escape and other sources.

Full of satire, bitter humor, and hope, these pieces demonstrate how art became a vital survival technique for the inmates

Conceived by Edward Einhorn
Developed and directed by Edward Einhorn and Jenny Lee Mitchell

With: Craig Anderson, Seth Gilman, Jenny Lee Mitchell, Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld, and Katarina Vizina
Musical direction and piano accompaniment: Maria Dessena.

$25 suggested donation

JANUARY SHOWS at a house at 153 W. 88th (capacity 15)
Sat Jan 28 at 7pm, Tue Jan 31 at 7:30pm

FEBRUARY SHOW (capacity 50)
at New Yiddish Rep, 315 W 39th St Suite 611
Sat Feb 18 at 8pm
Special guest: David Mandelbaum

MARCH SHOWS (capacity 22)
at the Torn Page Salon, 435 W 22nd Street
Sat March 18 at 8pm, Sun March 19 at 5pm
Special guest: Tony Torn

APRIL SHOW
TBA
Special guest: Johnna Wu

Original work written by Armin Berg, Robert Dauber, Sergei Dreznin, Grigory Flidlider, Hans Hofer, Vitezslav “Pidla” Horpatzky, Jaroslav Jezek, Frantisek Kowanitz, Josepf Lustig, Feliz Porges, Frida Rosenthal, Leo Strauss, Myra Strauss-Gruhenberg, Karel Svenk, and Ilse Weber.

Part of Remembrance Readings program of National Jewish Theater Foundation—Holocaust Theater International Initiative

For more info and tickets go here.

And again, my review is here.

Published by travsd

Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.