About The Orlando Cabaret Festival
MAD COW THEATRE announces the return of an exciting signature event for Downtown Orlando – The Sixth Annual Orlando Cabaret Festival. The Festival will feature cabaret artists and acts from Central Florida and beyond in a series of over 40 musical evening and lunchtime performances May 1- May 18, 2008. This year's lineup is one of our most exciting ever leading off with The Broadway Boys in a rare appearance outside of New York City - not to be missed. Returning this year to the Festival is Toxic Audio - winner of a Drama Desk award and Michael Andrew in a special tribute to the great songwriter Sammy Cahn.
Our brand new Songwriters' Spotlight series matches some of Mad Cow's favorite performers with the greatest songwriters of all time. Jaimie Roberts brings her sparkle to the music of Cole Porter; David Kelley and Marissa Montigney team up to celebrate the genius of Richard Rodgers; Andrea Canny gives us a taste of the fresh talent of Jason Robert Brown and the great Irving Berlin is given special treatment by the lovely Amy Baker. We're also continuing our extremely popular It Was A Very Good Year series, as we celebrate the Great American Songbooks of 1931, 1941 and 1951 in three separate shows.
MAD COW THEATRE will once again turn their intimate theatre space into two lively cabaret nightspots including Club Moo, where all table-seating transforms the space into a unique downtown nightspot. There's a differnet lineup every night, so each evening of the Festival you can take in as many as three diferent and spectacular acts -a Cabaret-lover's dream! One of the features of the Festival will be a series of weekday lunchtime performances designed especially for downtown workers. The performances will last 45 minutes, allowing workers to bring their lunch (box lunches will also be available at the theatre), see the show, and make it back to their offices within an hour.
Performances at the Orlando Cabaret Festival range from pop and jazz to contemporary, providing something for everyone’s tastes.
See you at the Festival!