Gearing up for its upcoming 20th season, Virginia’s Creative Cauldron offers “a summer celebrating all things musical theater.”
The August and September lineup includes the company’s annual Summer Cabaret Series featuring “some of the best talent the DMV theater scene has to offer” as selected by curator Matt Conner, the local gay composer and Helen Hayes Award-winning director.
All shows take place in the company’s intimate theater space, but are also available to watch this year as livestreams for those who can’t make it out to the theater at the particular showtimes. Highlights below:
“Sondheim Reunion Cabaret” featuring performers from Cauldron’s recent production of Into the Woods, including Rachel Lockett, Holly Kelly, Brett Klock, Brooke Bloomquist, and Bobby Libby. (8/13)
“Love is the Key” with DeCarlo Raspberry, an evening full of “love in all aspects” drawn from jazz, soul, gospel, classical, R&B, and musical theater. (8/19)
Chris “JChris” Urquiaga, paying tribute to inspiring and empowering Latin divas including Selena, Shakira, and Rocio Durcal, all backed by an energetic band, “Que vivan las divas!” (8/20)
“Double Date” featuring Sarah Anne Sillers with her husband, pianist Andrew Kullberg, and Joshua Simon with his husband Brandon Scott Heishman, billed as a “one-night-only” evening celebrating music, marriage, and friendship with beloved tunes from Broadway and beyond. (9/9)
Susan Derry, the Cauldron star and veteran stage performer whose debut album is titled I Wish It So. (9/10)
“Sous le Ciel de Paris” with Wesley Diener, fresh from a series of performances in southwest France for an evening of opera, musical theater, and standards. (9/16)
“Songs I Stole From My Kids!” with Kanysha Williams offering a peek into her life as a voice teacher, from “the songs that I can’t seem to get out of my head” to “ridiculous stories about hanging out with teenagers multiple times a week.” (9/17)
Creative Caudron performs at ArtSpace Falls Church, 410 South Maple Ave., Retail 116. Tickets are $25 to $35 for each live show, or $90 to $180 for a two-top or four-top table plus wine; $15 for each live stream.
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We've hit peak holiday season, with just a few more days to go until Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. So we've made a list, and checked it twice, with the following deemed suitable for all, whether you're naughty or nice. Partake in our mix of holiday-themed stage shows, music concerts, and outdoor pop-up parties and markets. Consider this your last call for all things 2024. This time next week, we'll guide you to ideas for ringing in 2025.
MADELINE'S CHRISTMAS -- Creative Cauldron presents a staged entertainment that also offers a transporting escape, suitable for all ages, to a romanticized depiction of Paris. That, in essence, is the appeal of Madeline's Christmas, the holiday musical that, over the past decade, has become a recurring seasonal hit for the Northern Virginia company. Based on the classic illustrated book Madeline, the focus is on a precocious Parisian girl and her teacher Miss Clavel at an all-girls boarding school. Adapted for the stage by Jennifer Kirkeby and Shirley Mier, the holiday-themed adventure finds everyone at the boarding school sick in bed on Christmas Eve and unable to go home for the holiday. But Madeline saves the day by taking her friends on "a Christmas journey they will never forget" with the help of a "magical rug merchant." As Miss Clavel, Shaina Kuhn is one of several adult actors in a cast featuring 21 children, elementary- and middle-school-aged students, all part of Creative Cauldron's Musical Theater Ensemble educational program. To Dec. 22. Creative Cauldron, 410 South Maple Ave., Falls Church. Tickets are $20 to $30, or $75 for a Family 4-Pack. Call 703-436-9948 or visit www.creativecauldron.org.
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