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Cabaret
Theatre Mission Statement |
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Cabaret Theatre is a non profit organization located on the
Douglass Campus of Rutgers University. Entirely student managed,
the Cabaret Theatre receives no financial assistance from
the University, and is dependent upon receipts from previous
events to fund its new productions.
Since 1975, the Cabaret Theatre has been committed
to providing the University and its surrounding community
with a wide variety of theatrical experiences, as well as
offering a forum for students to learn about acting, directing,
writing, business-management, design and construction through
various workshops and hands-on experience.
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 Since
1975, The Cabaret Theatre has been providing the Rutgers University
New Brunswick community with affordable high-quality productions.
Located On the Douglas Campus in New Brunswick, NJ, the Cabaret
Theatre is the oldest student-run theater company of Rutgers
University. Officially founded in 1973 as the Cabaret Theatre
Society, the Cabaret Theatre formally moved to the space it
now occupies on the Douglas Campus in 1975, and has been mounting
broadway quality productions ever since.
Some of Cabaret Theatre's previous productions have included
the musical Hair (1997), which went to the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival in Scotland in the summer of 1998, Eve Ensler's
The Vagina Monolgoues (1999), Ruby Lips (1974)
starring Tony and Drama Desk Award nominated actress Sheryl
Lee Ralph, The Snow Queen (1981) starring Drama Desk
Award winner Roger Bart, March of the Falsettos (1984),
directed by Tony nominated director Robert Jess Roth, the
East Coast production of James Sherman's Mr. 80% (1988),
A revival of Larry Krammer's acclaimed play about the AIDS
crisis, The Normal Heart (1997) and Kenneth Urban's
Burners (1999), produced by Cabaret Theatre for the
1999 New York International Fringe Festival. More recent productions
include Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (2003),
Sir Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular (2004), and Neil Simon's
Barefoot in the Park (2005). Our most recent original productions have included Consumed (2005), a modern dance
and slam poetry production, and Musical: The Musical! which recently appeared Off-Broadway in the New York Fringe Festival under the
its workshop title, Treaty 321.
Although it is listed as an offical student organization,
the Cabaret Theatre receives virtually no financial assistance
from Rutgers University, and so all productions are funded
with the box office receipts from previous productions. If you are interested
contributing to Cabaret, please visit our Donations Page for more information.
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Cabaret Theatre staff elects a 6 member committee to select
the upcoming season. This committee typically consists of the
Producer, the Associate Producer, the Artistic Director, the
Technical Director, the Business Manager and the Special Projects
Coordinator. These 6 staff members select a season from shows
which are proposed by other staff members. It is during these
summer months that the bulk of the upcoming Cabaret Theatre
season is decided. Normally, the season consists of one musical,
one or two straight plays (either a comedy or a drama) and a
special project during each semester. The Special Projects typically
are avant-garde, cutting edge works, original student-written
works or works that are usually lesser-known. The special project
slot in the schedule is usually decided at a later date at some
point during the semester. If you are interested in proposing
a special project for either the fall or spring semester for
this year, please contact Melissa Sullivan or read the Cabaret
Theatre Proposal Guidelines for more information. |
| The Cabaret Theatre
is a student-run organization devoted to the presentation of
dramatic works in an intimate and casual setting. What began
nearly three decades ago as a series of skits and songs performed
in the basement of the Douglass Bio-Sci building and the Gibbons
Cabin, The Cabaret Theatre has evolved into a Rutgers University
institution, and one of its most cherished traditions. The Cabaret
Theatre's members have graduated to become Tony award winning
actors, Broadway directors, designers, authors, doctors, lawyers,
and, most importantly, teachers -- passing what they have learned
on to the next generation.
The Cabaret Theatre, located on the corner of Nichol Avenue and Suydam Street
on the Douglass Campus of Rutgers University, is open to any
Rutgers University student who wishes to share in its work.
The Cabaret Theatre is truly unique. As one of the United
States' only student-run, self-supported independent theaters,
the The Cabaret Theatre believes that its structure is the
best way to allow student actors, directors, writers and technicians
to experiment with their art. The atmosphere encourages a
try and try again approach that is not based solely on results,
but on discovery. For nearly three decades, this method has
yielded both financial success and artistic advancement.
The Cabaret Theatre is only responsible to its own self-determined
artistic qualifications. While the Cabaret Theatre staff seek
out advice and occasionally, assistance, they don't require
anyone's approval. As such, the Cabaret Theatre offers the
student actor and spectator an alternative theater experience.
More casual and intimate than larger productions can afford
to be, The Cabaret Theatre's productions display only student
talents and student ideas that are the core of the ethos of
the Cabaret Theatre.
The Cabaret Theatre's double-edged sword is its change of
power. With each new year new personnel bring artistic variation.
It has been a necessary evil that a through-line of interpretation
has never been established. At the Cabaret Theatre it would
be impossible and unfair to accommodate just one theory of
theater.
And so, since the Cabaret Theatre Society's founding in 1973
and its refounding as the Cabaret Theatre in 1975 at its permanent
black box space at the corner of Nichol Avenue and Suydam
Street on the Douglass Campus of Rutgers University, the Cabaret
Theatre has been committed to bringing a wide variety of theatrical
experiences to Rutgers University, as well as offering a forum
for students to both teach and learn from their fellow students
about acting, directing, writing, business-management, design
and construction. |
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