Everyone’s favorite coffeehouse-slash-open mic extravaganza is back and open mic-ier than ever! Last Thursday, October 27th, all our Cab pals gathered in the mainspace at the end of the day for an evening of snacks, tunes, poetry, and, of course, coffee.
I’m gonna be real, Café Cab is special to me for a lot of reasons. It was the very first Cab event that I ever went to last Fall. It’s also the one time in the semester where anyone can sign up to perform anything they want, no stressful audition or grueling callback process required. Does that mean that I signed up? No way, but a lot of really talented people did! Overall, it’s just a super fun, low-stakes night of cheering on your friends as they take the stage (and/or being cheered on by YOUR friends as YOU take the stage!).
I will say though, SO many show tunes were sung. Good God, do y’all listen to anything else? Everyone killed it, and it was awesome, and you’re all so so talented, but we had people sing songs from Wicked, Waitress, Spelling Bee, and Beauty and the Beast all back-to-back. Are you guys theatre nerds or something? What do you think this is, a blackbox theater that performs two mainstage musicals and one musical revue per year??? Read the room. Anyway.
While this is the night where everyone gets to be the star of the show, there were some epic standouts for sure. Cabaret legend John Baker, in keeping with the tradition he started at last semester’s Café Cab (if you know, you know), returned with another stellar reading of a dramatic monologue, this time of an excerpt from a Shakespeare play. Which play? Could not tell you, I don’t know William that well. We’re not close like that. But it was sick.
There were also a delightful number of performances by members of Cab’s general board! One highlight of the evening was when Des Walker, Cab’s Graphic Designer and Social Media Manager, made their stand-up comedy debut and performed their own original set. Remember their name, because when their stand-up career kicks off, you’re gonna wanna be able to say, “I knew them when they made all of Cab scream-laugh for five minutes straight.”
All in all, we laughed, we cried, I think someone wailed in agony at one point, but that’s far from relevant. It was great to see so many friends and even a few new faces show off their skillzzz! Looking forward to doing it all again next semester already.
