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Wilkommen: Roanoke performers transport audience back in time for “Cabaret”

November 16, 2023

Category: Theatre Arts

Cast and crew on stage.

Picture it: 1920s Berlin. Outside, unrest growing in the streets. Inside, at a dark nightclub, a master of ceremonies takes to the stage to invite to forget all your worries.

This is the Kit Kat Klub, the setting for the award-winning musical “Cabaret,” the raucous, dark and complex tale of an American novelist and British nightclub singer trying to survive as artists in uncertain times. The show is being brought to life this weekend by Theatre Roanoke College, whose student performers are putting on the production Nov. 16-18.

Scroll through the gallery below to get a sneak peek of the production from its rehearsals.

“Cabaret,” directed by Fine Arts Assistant Professor Nelson Barre, is a production of Theatre Roanoke College. The show will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16-18 and at 2 p.m. Nov. 18 in Olin Hall Theatre. Admission is free to people with a Roanoke College ID, $10 for general admission or $5 for senior citizens. Tickets can be obtained on Eventbrite, by calling 540-375-2333 or by emailing boxoffice@roanoke.edu.  

Audience warning: “Cabaret” contains scenes of anti-Semitism in 1920s Germany, sexual content, domestic violence and alcohol use.   

Come Hear the Music Play

Students dancing.
Students dancing.
A woman singing as a man looks at her.
Two men talking.
Student dancers in a line.
A man and woman talking with dancers in the background.
A couple dancing as a woman sings above them.
Man singing with students diving for the money.
Man singing.
A couple lovingly looking at each other.