THE IRISH COLLEGE OF MUSIC THEATRE PRESENTS KANDER AND EBB’S
IN COLLABORATION WITH DIT CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND DRAMA
THE HELIX
30TH & 31ST JANUARY 2016
Willkommen Welcome to the Kit Kat Klub, where the students of the Irish College of Music Theatre (in collaboration with DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama) host the world-famous musical about life, passion and despair in Berlin under the darkening skies of approaching fascism. Boasting a lush and soaring score, with classic songs and daring choreography, CABARET is based on true events and real lives, and portrays the experiences of the English writer Christopher Isherwood, who lived in the Berlin district of Schoneberg from 1929 to 1933, making real life the source of this highly sensual theatrical experience. The story of the carefree nightclub-singer Sally Bowles in the glittering yet shady milieu of the Golden Twenties immortalised the city of Berlin as the city of historical fractures, caught between glamour and the gutter, between dreams and despair. The show will break your heart and lift your spirits more wildly than anything else you can see in the city right now, and will introduce you to exciting new talent being nurtured at the Irish College of Music Theatre. In September 2014, The Irish College of Music Theatre became the first musical theatre college in Ireland presenting third level accredited courses with business partners DIT. Presenting existing Level 6 and Level 7 musical theatre students with members of DIT orchestra, this production of CABARET is the phenomenal work of director Christine Scarry, musical director David Wray, choreographer Mary MacDonagh and designer John O’Donoghue. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in making The Irish College of Music Theatre’s first production a most memorable one.
Willkommen meine Damen und Herren im CABARET...
Deirdre Masterson
Head of The Irish College of Music Theatre
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CHRISTINE SCARRY DIRECTOR
Christine trained in piano and voice at the Conservatory of Music & Drama and the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and holds a first-class MA in Theatre Studies from Dublin City University. In addition to her thriving practice as a vocal coach, she works all over Ireland as a freelance director, and is the artistic director of Red Alchemy Theatre Company, which is dedicated to exploring provocative and challenging
DAVID WRAY
MUSICAL DIRECTOR Trained at Lancaster University and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London. He has since worked as a pianist, musical director and arranger in both Musical Theatre and Opera. In London he worked for The English Bach Festival, and was Musical Director for productions of Acis & Galatea and Dido & Aeneas. David has also worked as repetiteur for Wexford Festival Opera and DGOS/Opera Ireland. He has been Musical Director for numerous productions in Ireland and beyond. In 1998 David formed a new company Music Theatre Ireland. Credits
MARY MACDONAGH CHOREOGRAPHER
Trained at the Nesta Brooking School of Ballet in London and worked as a dancer and actress. Television credits include RTE, BBC and UTV. Mary now works extensively in theatre, and the music industry in Ireland and Europe as Director and Choreographer. She is founder and Co-Artistic Director and Choreographer with Storm Dance Company. She is also Artistic Director and Principal Teacher at the Chapel Lane School of the Performing Arts, of which a large number of students are currently working in theatre, film, television and the music industry. Mary
works by contemporary writers and composers. Most recent directing credits are The Addams Family, national tour of Listen To My Heart, Sweeney Todd and Michael Collins – A Musical Drama (Watergate), Assassins, RENT and A Little Light Music (The Helix), ESB 30th Anniversary Celebration (NCH), Chicago the Musical, La Boheme as part of Opera In The Park, Al Porter’s Take It From Me (Bewley’s Theatre), An Evening with John Bucchino (Cobalt Cafe), Follies (National Opera House). From 2005 until 2013, Christine directed the pantomime season at the Olympia Theatre. She will direct The Full Monty at The Watergate Theatre later this year. include Irish Premieres of ‘Songs for a New World’, ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’,’The Last Five Years’, ‘Listen To My Heart:The Songs of David Friedman’. David is currently artistic/musical director for Dublin City Council’s Opera In The Open, he is musical director for Phoenix Productions, The Three Irish Tenors & Druid. His many credits as an arranger include orchestrations & arrangements for Brian Flynn’s Michael Collins for Cork Opera House along with numerous CD projects the latest of which, Sandra Oman’s debut album ‘Liberty’, reached number one in the iTunes Charts! Recent theatre credits include Assassins, Sweeney Todd, Listen To My Heart, Beauty & The Beast.David is currently head of music for The Irish College of Musical Theatre. is founder/Director of The Fun Company of which she is very proud and which funds talented students from all genres of the entertainment world to undertake full time professional dance and theatre training. Recent credits include, A Tale of Two Cities, Crazy for You, 42nd Street, Chess, Jekyll & Hyde, Witches of Eastwick, Beauty & The Beast, Oliver!, Les Miserables, CATS, All Shook Up, Oklahoma! and Jesus Christ Superstar. For Lyric Opera she choreographed Aida, Rusalka, The Marriage of Figaro, HMS Pinafore and The Mikado and H.M.S Pinafore for The Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, (UK). Multi-award winner Mary also coaches professional dancers and in this respect has worked throughout Europe and as far afield as Japan.
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the Cast Master of Ceremonies Sally Bowles Clifford Bradshaw Ernst Ludwig Fraulein Schneider Herr Schultz Fraulein Kost Max Boy Soprano Gorilla
LIAM EGAN GRACE COLLENDER FIONN GARDNER SEAN KEANY LAURA CARROLL DAVID BROWNE AOIFE MacNAMARA EOIN O’REILLY RIAN MIDDLETON ORLA KEARNS
KIT KAT GIRLS
Rosie Helga Frenchie Texas Fritzie Lulu
HOLLY HIGGINS KERRY GOLDING AISLING REID EIMEAR BARR HELENA GEOGHEGAN JULIE POWER
KIT KAT BOYS Bobby OISIN NOLAN Victor TERENCE CHRISTLE Helmut DARREN O’HARA Hans/Customs COLM LOMBARD Herman/Rudy LIAM QUIGLEY CITIZENS OF BERLIN LAURA DONOHUE, ALEX DOUGLAS, AMBER O’REILLY, TANYA GRANT, MOLLY McALLISTER, TRUDY MCGONIGLE, SLANEY POWER, CORA SHERLOCK
production team Director Musical Director Choreographer Producer Set Design & Artwork Lighting Design Sound Design Hair & Make-Up Stage Manager Costume Co-Ordinator Set Construction Promotional Designer
CHRISTINE SCARRY DAVID WRAY MARY MACDONAGH DEIRDRE MASTERSON JOHN O’DONOGHUE COLM EATON TERRY HERON Val Sherlock MARY KILDUFF SIOBHAN O’CONNELL ALL SET SCENERY EAMONN B. SHANAHAN
ORCHESTRA Head of Orchestral Studies CLIONA DORRIS
Concert & Ensemble Manager RONAN GRANT
Violin TOMAS PUJOL OWENS Viola CLIONA NI CHOCHLAIN Cello HELEN SIMON Bass DAIRE MACMAGHNUIS Reed SHANE KENRICK Reed RYAN HARGADON Trumpet RONAN GRANT Trumpet NIALL HOULIHAN Trumpet AOIFE GARRY Trombone JOE MACDONALD Drums GARY BYRNE With thanks to Kevin Hanafin for orchestral preparation & coaching
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of the station cupola was home to the Schubert-Saal, one of the several ‘neighbourhood’ concert halls in Berlin. In the late 1920s the venue was host to many, diverse gay & lesbian social and cultural events.
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There are two very distinct memorials at Nollendorfplatz. Inside the station building is an enclosed chamber, visible only through a gate, dedicated to the memory of the railway workers killed in the first and second world wars. On the outside of the building is a triangular plaque, in memory of the gay and lesbian victims of the National Socialist regime. Today, Nollendorfplatz remains at the heart of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities of Berlin.
MEET THE CAST EMCEE LIAM EGAN
Clifford Bradshaw Sally Bowles GRACE COLLENDER FIONN GARDNER
Ernst Ludwig SEAN KEANY
Fraulein Schneider
LAURA CARROLL
Herr Schultz DAVID BROWNE
Fraulein Kost AOIFE MacNAMARA
Max EOIN O’REILLY
Boy Soprano RIAN MIDDLETON
Gorilla ORLA KEARNS
Rosie HOLLY HIGGINS
Helga KERRY GOLDING
Frenchie AISLING REID
Texas EIMEAR BARR
HELENA GEOGHEGAN
Lulu JULIE POWER
OISIN NOLAN
TERENCE CHRISTLE
DARREN O’HARA
Citizen of Berlin
Citizen of Berlin
LAURA DONOHUE
ALEX DOUGLAS
Citizen of Berlin
Citizen of Berlin
Citizen of Berlin
Herman/Rudy LIAM QUIGLEY
Citizen of Berlin
TANYA GRANT
Bobby
Victor
MOLLY McALLISTER TRUDY MCGONIGLE
Helmut
CORA SHERLOCK
Citizen of Berlin
SLANEY POWER
Fritzie
Hans/Customs COLM LOMBARD
Citizen of Berlin
AMBER O’REILLY
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