Liberty Cabaret photos and stories!

Alright guys, so I told you that I would post on Saturday how the show went but Friday night wiped me out until about 5pm the next day (and I'm just not feeling 100% healthy right now) so I thought that I would post some pictures and stories from this weekend. All of the pictures on this post were taken by the wonderful Stephen West of West PA Magazine. Click on any of the photos to see a larger version of the image. Click Here for their website! The first photo is our cast photo... its so fun!


From left to right we have Bill Hennessey, Peg Hennessy, Bret Sloan, Janelle Chambers, Kristen Criado (back at the piano), Tammi Dahl (back at the piano), Rosie Petulla, Ted Smith, Carissa McClintock, Marc Ellis Holland, Me (Katie Kirby-Rogers) and Bryon Gable. How pretty are we? :-)


This is the same basic premise as the last shot but with us acting "candid". Cute stuff!


This is Bret Sloan singing the first verse of the opening number "Cabaret". I just adore this boy, everyone does. He has a beautiful voice.


This is a picture of the entire cast on our ending pose of "Cabaret". Unfortunately that's just pop or water in those glasses. :-) We have a lot of fun with that number. It's truly an ensemble piece.


How cute are these two? Janelle Chambers sang "I Could Have Danced All Night" and at the end Bret came in and sang with her. Notice that she's barefoot? She kicks her shoes off to "dance" and at the end Bret picks them up for her and follows her offstage! SOO cute.



More pictures of Janelle and Bret. In the number where she has the parasol, she sang "Let Me Entertain You".


This is the fabulous Marc Ellis Holland... the single most talented person I've ever met. He's a Broadway veteran and we just adore him. He sang "Very Soft Shoes".

DRUMROLL PLEASE.......




The gorgeous Miss Ginger Watkins. She was the star of the evening... I mean, just look at those legs!! Isn't Marc just gorgeous as a woman? I mean, seriously. She sang "Ladies Who Lunch".


Ted Smith, Marc's husband and our fantastic director. He sang "From This Moment On" from Kiss Me Kate. Such a scene stealer, that one. :-)


The baby of our group, Carissa McClintock singing "Being Alive" from Company. I've known this girl for years and I just adore her.

Oh, Rosie. I've known Rosie since 1994 when I was in my first show at the Barrow. She sang "Funny Valentine". She's about the cutest thing in the world when she sings. So much joy!


This is Bill and Peg Hennessey. They have to be one of the cutest married couples I know. They both love performing so much and their rendition of "Timeless to Me" from Hairspray was so much fun!

Finally we have Bryon and me... get ready for it...






We sang "Dangerous Game" from Jekyll & Hyde. It was a great song and I'm SO proud of the work we put into it. The responses have been nothing but positive. This is just the first half of the show, however, so when Stephen posts more I will post and link the rest of them. Both nights of the show went exceedingly well. The audience had a blast and so did we. A lot of audiences don't realize that their reactions can make or break a show. If the energy from the audience is down or if they don't respond much then the cast loses steam and the show drags. Our audiences have been wonderful!

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The Liberty Cabaret Opening Night!!

So here it is... what we have been working towards for the past month... opening day of the Liberty Cabaret! We've all worked really hard on our songs and we're finally here. I am so proud to be involved with this show, it's going to be fabulous. The sales for today are (as of last night) 20 for tonight and 19 for tomorrow. That's about half full and if you put that into perspective, that would be about 250 seats in the big theatre so it's not bad at all! :-)


Isn't our theatre beautiful?

I'll post pictures and accounts tomorrow afternoon, but for now I'll just say that I'm SOO excited. It's going to be a really good time and you should all come!

OH! And tickets WILL NOT be available at the door. Reservations will end at Noon for this weekend and the same goes for next weekend.

Liberty Cabaret Update!

So yesterday went exceedingly well. After some initial akwardness with our original movements for Dangerous Game, Bryon and I started working on actual blocking instead of what we had been doing and it seemed to just fall into place from there. When we showed it to our directors, they all agreed that the blocking was super intense and that it was perfect for the feeling of the song. Tammi tweaked it a little bit, simplifying our movements so that they didn't distract from our voices and once we implemented her notes it was great. They all seem to have the same frame of mind with this song: it's sexy. Bryon and I are finally getting really excited about this song.

Another fun thing that happened last night is that, because I don't have anything besides the finale in Act 2, they're having me sing At Last by Etta James in the second act. I'm so excited because I love that song and I've always wanted to perform it but I've never had the opportunity to do so. So it looks like I'll be posting three videos on here once I have them. :-) I'll keep updating on this as it goes along... a week from tonight we open!

Liberty Cabaret

Currently I'm involved in a show at the Barrow called the Liberty Cabaret. It's a Dinner Theatre in the Little Theatre and it's fantastic, if I do say so myself. :-) The cast is comprised of ten performers; Janelle Chambers, Bryon Gable, Bill and Peg Hennessy, Marc Ellis Holland, Carissa McClintock, Bret Sloan, Rosie Petulla and Ted Smith and myself. It's being directed by Ted Smith with Musical Direction by Tammi Dahl and accompaniment by Kristen Criado. It's going to be a great night of food and singing, because what more could you possibly want out of an evening? I know that music and food are two of my favorite things. :-) It's $30 per ticket which I know sounds like a lot off hand but when you consider that you'd probably spend at least $15 for dinner at any given restaurant and then $15 for a ticket it evens itself out quite nicely.

So rehearsals are going very well, I have a duet with Bryon and a solo piece as well. We're singing "Dangerous Game" from Jekyll and Hyde and then I'm singing "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret so it should be a really cool time. We're working on the song tonight before rehearsal, just getting the staging down so that we can start performing it instead of singing it with out hands in our pockets.

Opening night is a week from tomorrow! It's scary but it's going to be a lot of fun as well. I have to get a dress for the show, I need a cocktail dress and since I've never shopped for one it should be a lot of fun! I'll post pictures once I have a dress.

Well I guess that's all for this post. More on the Cabaret to come!