Cabarets

Christmas at Christine's by Guest User

December 1December 23, 2016

The World Premiere
Written and Performed by Christine Bunuan
Directed by J.R. Sullivan
Musical Direction by Ryan Brewster

This new holiday musical revue puts a Silk Road spin on the Christmas season. Chicago favorite Christine Bunuan invites you into her world with Christmas at Christine's. Journey from California to Chicago to the Philippines to a Catholic-Jewish household as Christine sings her way through the holiday songbook and a lifetime of yuletide memories.

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Re-Spiced: A Silk Road Cabaret by Guest User

April 4May 6, 2012

The World Premiere
Curated by Jamil Khoury
Directed by Steve Scott
Musical Direction by Ryan Brewster
Choreography by Brenda Didier

Re-Spiced: A Silk Road Cabaret is a playful, sexy, occasionally subversive, always entertaining musical pastiche of Asian and Middle Eastern images in American and British song and verse. From Broadway show tunes to pop, from country to rap, folk to rock, poetry to prose, Re-Spiced turns the tables on “us” and “them” with panache and glee and leaves us wondering just who’s who?

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Silk Road Cabaret: Broadway Sings the Silk Road by Guest User

October 21November 1, 2009

The World Premiere
Conceived and Curated by Jamil Khoury
Directed by Elizabeth Margolius
Musical Direction by Gary Powell

Silk Road Cabaret: Broadway Sings the Silk Road features songs from popular Broadway musicals set along the Silk Road—from Pacific Overtures to Two Gentlemen of Verona to Jesus Christ Superstar to The King and I to Zorba to Miss Saigon, and many more in between. This bold and harmonious East-West interplay blends music with personal stories and showcases performers of diverse backgrounds as they claim, reclaim, subvert, and poke fun at a host of old favorites from the Broadway repertoire.

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