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The Lineage Performing Arts Center is bringing the Tony award-winning musical Cabaret to
Pasadena audiences from January 12th-20th. This daring production takes the book and music of Cabaret and adds Lineage’s original choreography and movement that transports audiences deeply into the story. Audiences are invited to taste the wine, hear the live band, and celebrate with Lineage’s powerhouse performers!
Featuring a brilliant book by Joe Masteroff, based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood, with iconic music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Cabaret follows Clifford Bradshaw, a young American on a train to Berlin in 1929. On the train, he meets a seemingly charming German man who directs him to the Kit Kat Klub–a cabaret club where the party never dies. As our hero descends into the depths of the city’s seedy nightlife, he watches Germany fall victim to a different sort of darkness, and before long what seemed like a sexy, wild time becomes much more complicated.
Cabaret has been shocking and inspiring audiences since its premiere with its frank portrayals of sexuality, politics, and the choice between doing what’s expedient and doing what is right. Providing an extra layer of context to the show is an installation in Lineage’s lobby and hallway by Theresa Kennedy on the history of drag.
Director Hilary Thomas leaned into the opportunity to bring such a challenging show to the
intimate space of The Lineage Performing Arts Center. “Addressing the horrors of a dark time in history through art,” she says, “and offering a space to process pain and examine parallels in our world today is exactly what Lineage does best.”
The show runs January 12-20th, with only 55 seats available in each show. A limited number of tickets are also available to sit at a table for two right on the stage of the Kit Kat Klub. “It’s almost certain to sell out soon,” says Lineage’s General Manager, M Cantu, “so we recommend buying tickets as soon as you can.” (Update: Show added Sunday January 21 at 5pm)
The show runs 2 hours and 45 minutes long, with one intermission, and is recommended for mature audiences due to themes involving sex, death, racism, and images and discussions of nazism.
Tickets are available through Lineage’s website at www.lineagepac.org.
Lineage Performing Arts Center is located at 920 E. Mountain Street in Pasadena.
Lineage would like to thank producer Peggy Burt and featured production sponsors the
Burt family, Nina Gutin, the Guyer family, Terry and Jeanie Kay, John and Jo Schillinger, Jeannie Vaughn, and Daria Yudacufski.
