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The CAbaret Series
Our Cabaret performances continue in our 2025 -2026 Season
The George Fulginiti Series: Cabaret, Cocktails, & Conversation
We are partnering with The Arts Club of Washington, DC’s oldest continuing cultural club and not-for profit organization for an exploration into what makes for an optimal cabaret experience. This curated series with sessions every other month gives outstanding local performers and Company artists opportunity to devise and deliver their own unique take on Cabaret.
We are happy to announce our second season of the Cabaret Series and couldn’t be more excited about this year’s lineup.
On Tuesday, October 7 we are welcoming back Josh Cleveland.
With a hat tip to writer Ernest Hemingway, Josh is titling the evening “One True Sentence." Join Josh for an evening of classic cabaret selections that illuminate versions of his own story as a young songwriter and educator, as well as original songs drawn from his works, including musical adaptations of The Great Gatsby and Despicable Me.
Josh is joined by performer, composer, and lyricist, Alyssa Payne.
We can't promise they will heal our nation's fractious discourse in one night of musical storytelling, but, while enjoying a specialty cocktail designed for the occasion, we can open our ears, share laughs, and find at least one or two true sentences along the way.
These are the other artists in our season :
December 2 – Melisa Bonetti -- “Carmen Meets Lola” February 3 -- Javier Arrey -- “Music without Borders"
April 7 – Oren Levine & Aaron Myers “A Jazzy Something” June 2 -- Alan Naylor -- “Songs We Need Now”
Hope you will join us for these special events.
For the Cabaret Series events, Audiences are invited to join us in an exploration of the boundaries of global cabaret and what makes for an optimal experience. What can you expect coming to our cabaret evenings? Sometimes familiar tunes, to be sure, but we specialize in original cabaret compositions, sometimes crossover genres, and we encourage artists to bend and push boundaries of the cabaret form and always speak to our current times, in the space and the place where we are. We come together for an intimate experience with artists who have something to say and engage in lively conversation with the artists following every performance.
You can always count on being part of a birthing process that is magic of music-theatre, “Seeing the back of the tapestry.”
The Arts Club of Washington venue is intimate, perfect for an optimal cabaret experience. Also thrown into the price of a ticket, the Arts Club will provide a small bites buffet and a signature cocktail created for this performance. Following the show you will meet the artist and enjoy other fine company. For each performance, the bar opens at 6:30 pm, the show starts at 7:00 pm.
We are also offering the Cabaret Series on a subscription basis for all five performances for $275. PACKAGE TICKETS HERE.
Tickets for individual performances are $65. INDIVIDUAL TICKETS HERE.
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Previous Cabaret Performances
Greg Watkins created
Unforgettable: A Valentine Tribute to Nat King Cole
Tuesday, February 11 & Saturday, February 22
Both evenings lived up to our promise as one not to be missed as Greg channeled the iconic American singer with some of his most memorable, and yes, romantic songs for this post- Valentine celebration. The venue is intimate, perfect for an optimal cabaret experience.
(Our Performance on Tuesday, February 11 was sold out, but the weather was not cooperative, so we offered an encore performance.)
The Arts Club continued the new-found tradition of coming up with a signature cocktail for the occasion to pay honor to the lusciousness of Mr. Cole’s voice in something we called “Je vous aime beaucoup.” Also thrown into the price of a ticket, the Arts Club provided a small bites buffet and a refresher beverage following the show where our guests could meet the artist and enjoy other fine company.
Roz White was Featured Artist on Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Roz White called her original program “First Take: Roberta Flack at Mr. Henry’s.”
The amazing Roberta Flack is considered by many to be one of the greatest songstresses of all time. She began her career here in Washington and had a regular gig at Mr. Henry’s on Capitol Hill, and you could count on her to be sitting behind the piano “killing you softly.” Her songs brought insight into our lives, loves, culture and politics, while she effortlessly traversed a broad musical landscape from pop to soul to folk to jazz. She is the only solo artist to win the GRAMMY Award Record of the Year for two consecutive years.
Most of all, she had a superlative ability to tell a story through her music – she just “does it to you.” Roz does the same.
As a singer-actress, Roz has portrayed many iconic Black singers and music styles from Pearl Bailey to Etta James, and most recently Billie Holiday at Mosaic Theater. If you were wowed by her Billie, you will love her as Roberta. Read more about Roz White HERE.
The Cabaret series includes a cocktail prepared especially for each performance at the Arts Club. For Roz White's performance we enjoyed Roberta Flack’s favorite cocktail – "Killing me Softly.".
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The Cabaret Series is in honor of Founding Member of Alliance for New Music-Theatre George Fulginiti-Shakar, who was for many years a local star in the DC theatre orbit, serving as music director of many productions at Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre. Shakespeare Theatre, Studio Theatre, as well as serving as Founder/Director of the DC Cabaret Network and many of our own productions,.
What can you expect in the series and New Music-Theatre’s exploratory foray into this genre? We want you to assist us as we weigh in on the question, “What Is cabaret?” And more particularly, “What makes for an optimal cabaret experience?” We may feature, in the process, culturally international sounds and interpretations and even cross-disciplinary approaches. All bets are on that there will be transgressive themes, adult beverages, and a whole lot of fun when the artists invited in break the fourth wall and make their personal statements in this form.
You won’t want to miss up-to-date original cabaret songs, some newly minted for our series, and addressing peculiarly DC themes.