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For immediate release: Thursday, August 18, 2016 : Sarah Knab, 608.258.4438 / [email protected] PRODUCTION PHOTOS: Click here.

"DIVINELY, DANGEROUSLY DECADENT." – , The Times

“One of ’s GREATEST TRIUMPHS!” -Houston Chronicle

"Truly unmissable! Even if you saw it last time, you are strongly advised - no, URGED - to return." -USA Today

ROUNDABOUT THEATRE ’S TONY AWARD® -WINNING PRODUCTION OF COMES TO MADISON AT OVERTURE CENTER

Madison, Wis. – Overture Center announced that individual tickets for the Madison engagement of Roundabout Theatre Company’s CABARET will go on sale Saturday, August 27 at 9 a.m. in person at the Overture Center ticket office at 201 State Street (doors open at 8:30 a.m.), 11 a.m. online at overture.org or 11 a.m. by phone at 608.258.4141. Subscriptions available now. Tickets for groups of 10 or more available now by calling 608.258.4159.

Direct from , the musical masterpiece comes to Madison! As part of their 50th Anniversary Season, the critically acclaimed and award-winning Roundabout Theatre Company is proud to present the national tour of (Skyfall, American Beauty) and ’s (Into and , the films) Tony Award®-winning production of CABARET, playing Tuesday, March 21-Sunday, March 26, 2017, at Overture Center as part of the 2016/17 Broadway Series.

John Kander, , best known for their legendary musical, CHICAGO and ’s Tony- winning musical features some of the most memorable songs in theatre history, including “Cabaret,” “” and “Maybe This Time.” CABARET is set in the infamous Kit Kat Klub, where the Emcee, and a raucous ensemble take the stage nightly to tantalize the crowd––and to leave their troubles outside. The creative team for the North American tour of CABARET features the original Broadway direction by Sam Mendes and original co-direction & choreography by Rob Marshall. Tour direction is under the helm of BT McNicholl () and choreography is recreated by Cynthia Onrubia (Victor/Victoria). The design team includes set design by Robert Brill (), costume design by (Chicago), lighting design by () and Mike Baldassari (“”), sound design by Keith Caggiano (The Radio City Christmas Spectacular) based on the original Broadway design by Brian Ronan with and wig design by Paul Huntley. CABARET features orchestrations by Michael Gibson (), music supervision & vocal arrangements by Patrick Vaccariello (On Your Feet) and music direction by Robert Cookman (). M·A·C. is the Official Makeup Partner for the production. CABARET is based on the play by and stories by .

Roundabout Theatre Company’s acclaimed production of CABARET first opened on Broadway on March 19, 1998 starring and and won four including Best Revival of a Musical. CABARET went on to play on Broadway for six years and 2,378 performances before finishing its run on January 4, 2004. CABARET returned to Broadway and the infamous with performances beginning March 21, 2014 with Alan Cumming reprising his Tony-winning role as the Emcee. The production featured Michelle Williams, and in the role of Sally Bowles and played 423 performances through March 29, 2015.

CABARET premiered on Broadway in 1966 and won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, in addition to the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the Outer Critics’ Circle Award, the Variety Poll of New York Critics, and ’s Evening Standard Award. The original Broadway production played 1,166 performances.

Roundabout Theatre Company is committed to producing the highest quality theatre with the finest artists, sharing stories that endure, and providing accessibility to all audiences. A not-for-profit company, Roundabout fulfills its mission each season through the production of classic plays and musicals; development and production of new works by established and emerging writers; educational initiatives that enrich the lives of children and adults; and a subscription model and audience outreach programs that cultivate and engage all audiences.

Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin features seven state-of-the-art performance spaces and five galleries where national and international touring artists, ten resident companies, and hundreds of local artists engage nearly half a million people in educational and artistic experiences each year. OvertureCenter.org

Broadway Across America is part of The family of companies, which includes Broadway.com, under the supervision of John Gore (Owner & CEO). Current and past productions include On Your Feet!, , Shuffle Along, Beautiful, Finding Neverland, Million Dollar Quartet, , and . BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com; Broadway.com

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Upcoming engagements for Roundabout Theatre Company’s CABARET:

San Diego, CA Civic Theatre August 23 – August 28, 2016 Tempe, AZ ASU Gammage September 13 – September 18, 2016 Tucson, AZ Centennial Hall September 20 – September 25, 2016 Denver, CO Buell Theatre September 27 – October 9, 2016 Omaha, NE Orpheum Theater October 11 – October 16, 2016 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theatre October 18 – October 23, 2016 San Antonio, TX Majestic Theatre October 25 – October 30, 2016 , GA Fox Theatre 1 – November 6, 2016 Charlotte, NC Belk Theatre/Blumenthal Performing Arts November 8 – November 13, 2016 Fort Lauderdale, FL Broward Center for the Performing Arts January 10 – January 22, 2017 Tampa, FL Straz Center for the Performing Arts January 24 – January 29, 2017 , MA Boston Opera House January 31 – February 12, 2017 , ON Princess of Wales Theatre February 14 – February 19, 2017 East Lansing, MI Wharton Center for Performing Arts February 21 – February 26, 2017 Appleton, WI Fox Cities Performing Arts Center February 28 – March 5, 2017 St. Louis, MO The Fabulous Fox March 7 – March 19, 2017 Madison, WI Overture Center for the Arts March 21 – March 26, 2017 Columbus, OH Ohio Theatre March 28 – April 2, 2017 Philadelphia, PA Academy of Music April 4 – April 9, 2017 Naples, FL Artis-Naples April 12 – April 16, 2017 Buffalo, NY Shea’s Performing Arts Center April 25 – April 30, 2017 Rochester, NY Auditorium Theatre May 2 – May 7, 2017 Schenectady, NY Proctors May 9 –May 14, 2017 San Jose, CA Center for the Performing Arts June 6 – June 11, 2017 , WA Paramount Theatre June 13 – June 25, 2017 Portland, OR Keller Auditorium June 27 – July 2, 2017 Washington, DC Eisenhower Theatre/ The Kennedy Center July 11 – August 6, 2017

For more information, please visit www.CabaretMusical.com.

ROUNDABOUT ON TOUR: Roundabout Theatre Company was most recently represented across the country with the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning national tour of starring which toured for 48 weeks. Before that, Twelve Angry Men toured for 2 years, spending 63 weeks across the United States and . Roundabout’s longest-running musical, the revival of Cabaret, received a multi-year tour across the country beginning in 1999. In 2011, Roundabout Theatre Company’s acclaimed work reached a worldwide cinema audience with the HD capture and broadcast of their Tony nominated production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Brian Bedford.

Roundabout Theatre Company is committed to producing the highest quality theatre with the finest artists, sharing stories that endure, and providing accessibility to all audiences. A not-for-profit company, Roundabout fulfills its mission each season through the production of classic plays and musicals; development and production of new works by established and emerging writers; educational initiatives that enrich the lives of children and adults; and a subscription model and audience outreach programs that cultivate and engage all audiences.

Roundabout Theatre Company presents a variety of plays, musicals, and new works on its five stages, each of which is specifically designed to enhance the needs of Roundabout’s mission. Off-Broadway, the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, which houses the Laura Pels Theatre and Black Box Theatre, with its simple sophisticated design, is perfectly suited to showcasing new plays. The grandeur of its Broadway home on , American Airlines Theatre, sets the ideal stage for the classics. Roundabout’s Studio 54 provides an exciting and intimate Broadway venue for its musical and special event productions. The Stephen offers a state of the art LEED certified in which to stage major large-scale musical revivals. Together these distinctive homes serve to enhance Roundabout’s work on each of its stages.

Roundabout Theatre Company’s 50th Anniversary Season celebrates the company’s numerous accomplishments and vision for the future with bold new productions of classic plays, a revival of the Roundabout’s first musical, and new work by some of the country’s most exciting young talent. Founded in 1965, Roundabout Theatre Company has grown from a small 150-seat theatre in a converted Chelsea supermarket basement to become one of the nation’s most influential not-for-profit theatre companies, as well as one of ’s leading cultural institutions. Roundabout has been recognized with 29 Tonys, 41 Drama Desks, 50 Outer Critics Circle, 10 Obie and 15 Lucille Lortel Awards for its work on five stages, reaching more than 700,000 theatergoers and employing hundreds of artists each year. Bank of America is a proud 50th Anniversary Season sponsor – a partnership that makes possible Roundabout’s many productions and not-for-profit initiatives during this landmark year. Roundabout’s 50th Anniversary Season media partners include WNBC, Clear Channel Spectacolor, and the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.

American Airlines is the official airline of Roundabout Theatre Company. Roundabout productions are supported, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, as well as the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Roundabout’s 50th anniversary season in 2015-2016 includes: , Zachary Levi, , Byron Jennings, Michael McGrath and in by Joe Masteroff, and , directed by ; Steven Pasquale in The Robber Bridegroom by and Robert Waldman, directed by Alex Timbers; , Gabriel Byrne, Michael Shannon and John Gallagher, Jr. in Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill, directed by Jonathan Kent; and the national tour of Sam Mendes & Rob Marshall’s Tony Award-winning production of Cabaret.

Roundabout’s 2016-2017 season will include : The New Irvin Berlin Musical by Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge, directed by Gordon Greenberg with lyrics by ; a new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard by with a new adaption by Stephen Karam, directed by Simon Godwin; Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett, directed by ; If I Forget by Steven Levenson and Napoli, Brooklyn by Meghan Kennedy. The 2016-2017 Roundabout Underground season includes Kingdom Come, a new play by Jenny Rachel Weiner.

CREATIVE BIOS:

JOE MASTEROFF (Book). Born in 1919 in Philadelphia, he had only one dream from infancy: to write for the theatre. After the essential lonely childhood and four-year stint in the Air Force, he came to New York to face his future: book-writer or book seller? Luckily, luck intervened. Before long he had three shows on Broadway bearing his name: The Warm Peninsula starring , and two musicals She Loves Me and Cabaret, for which he was the book writer. Thanks to indulgent parents, the New Dramatists, Hal Prince and many others, he is now retired and living in subdued luxury.

JOHN KANDER (Music) & FRED EBB (Lyrics). The collaboration of four decades created many Broadway standards and contemporary classics. There first collaborations “My Coloring Book” became a hit song for , earning John and Fred a Grammy nomination. Kander & Ebb’s first Broadway show in 1965 Flora, the Red Menace, produced by Hal Prince, directed by and introducing a rising new star: . Followed by Cabaret (Tony Award music and lyrics); ; ; 70, Girls, 70; Chicago; ; Woman of the Year (Tony Award music and lyrics); ; Kiss of the Spider Woman (Tony Award music and lyrics); and . Along with movies and television writing original material for the ; “” and HBO’s Liza Minnelli’s “Steppin’ Out” (both Emmy winners); “Baryshnikov on Broadway”; “Goldie and Liza Together”; Funny Lady; Lucky Lady, New York, New York; Steppin’Out; and Chicago the movie. In 1985 the song “New York, New York” became the official anthem of New York City. At the time of Mr. Ebb’s death in 2004, Kander & Ebb had several projects in different stages of completion, Tony-nominated , in 2007; 12-time Tony-nominated The Scottsboro Boys, in 2010; (an adaptation of The Skin of our Teeth); and , premiering at the in Chicago then the Signature Theatre in Fairfax, VA and nominated for 5 Tony’s including best score in 2015 all starring . Mr. Kander is currently collaborating with author/playwright Greg Pierce The Landing and Kid Victory deputed at the Signature Theatre and The .

SAM MENDES (Director) founded and ran the in London for ten years. He has directed many productions at the Donmar, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway. He founded the transatlantic theatre company The Bridge Project, for whom he directed five productions that toured the world. In London currently: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. In addition he has directed several movies, including the Academy Award-winning American Beauty and the movies, Skyfall & Spectre. He has won many awards for his work on stage and screen, including the Tony, the Olivier, the Directors Guild Award, the Shakespeare Prize, the BAFTA, the Golden Globe and the Academy Award. He was awarded the CBE in 2000 and the Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.

ROB MARSHALL (Co-Director, Choreographer). Broadway: Cabaret, , Kiss of the Spider Woman, She Loves Me, , Victor/Victoria, A Funny Thing…Forum, and Company. For his stage work Marshall has earned 6 Tony nominations, the Outer Critics Award, the Jason Robards Award and the George Abbott Award. FILM: Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha, Nine, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and . Marshall’s films have been nominated for 26 Academy Awards and have won 9, including Best Picture. For his film work he has received the DGA Award, Oscar nom., National Board of Review Award, NY Film Critics Award, 3 Golden Globe noms., BAFTA nom. and American Choreography Award. TV: “: An American Classic,” “,” “,” “Mrs. Santa Claus.” For his TV work Marshall has received 4 , the DGA Award, and the American Choreography Award.

BT McNICHOLL (Director) won the Australian "Tony" (the Helpmann) for Best Direction (along with Messrs. Mendes and Marshall) for Cabaret, which he also staged in record-setting runs in and . McNicholl was the protégé of the legendary , and has been associated with directors , , David Hare and Jerry Zaks on 12 Broadway shows. He directed Spamalot at the Bowl, the European premiere of The Producers for , and the regional premiere of Billy Elliot ( Award). A BMI-Award winning lyricist, his credits include the critically-acclaimed musical The It Girl.

CYNTHIA ONRUBIA (Choreographer) has worked on numerous productions for; The , , City Centers’ Encores and the original Broadway productions of: Dame Edna: The Royal Tour (League of Producers Award nomination for Best Choreography), Cabaret (2003 Sir Robert Helpmann Award for Best Choreography, ), Little Me, Victor/Victoria, Damn Yankees, , Metro, ’ Broadway, , , Gotta Go Disco, Dancin’, A . Film choreography: Labor Day, Away We Go, Revolutionary Road, Definitely Maybe, , Big Fish, Analyze That, Chicago (2003 American Choreography Award ), Center Stage, . She received the 1994 American Theatre Roundtable Award for Outstanding Career Performances.

PATRICK VACCARIELLO (Musical Supervisor). Patrick has just returned from an Arena tour throughout Australia Music Directing . He has supervised and conducted the most recent Tony Awards (2014 and 2015). He is currently the Music Coordinator for the new Broadway musical, On Your Feet . Broadway: Music director/arranger for Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, , Come Fly Away, , (both Patti LuPone and ), La Cage aux Folles, The Boy From Oz, Cabaret, Dance of the Vampires, , Victor/Victoria, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cats and . West End: . Worldwide: The Music of . Patrick has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Kansas City Symphony and conducted at Carnegie Hall, , City Center, Steppenwolf Theatre, the Kennedy Center and the Great Hall of the People (Beijing). A graduate of the Hartt School of Music, Patrick received its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2010.

ROBERT BRILL (Set Design). Broadway: Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar, Assassins (Tony nom.), Buried Child, (Tony nom.), , , Laugh Whore, The Story of My Life, The Good Body, Anna in the Tropics, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and The Rehearsal. Other credits include the Flaming Lips’ musical Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, ’s A Word or Two, Moby-Dick ( Opera), Faust (Met/ENO), Sinatra (Radio City), On the Record (Disney), An American in Paris (Boston Ballet), A Clockwork Orange (Steppenwolf) and The Laramie Project (BAM and others). Founding member of Sledgehammer Theatre and recipient of the Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration.

WILLIAM IVEY LONG (Costume Design). Select Broadway credits include Chicago (now in its 19th year); Rodgers+ Hammerstein’s Cinderella, , The Producers, Hairspray, Cabaret (1998 and 2014), , Guys and Dolls, Nine. Mr. Long has been nominated for 15 Tony Awards, winning 6 times. He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame- 2005, and was elected Chairman of The in June, 2012. www.williamiveylong.com

PEGGY EISENHAUER (Lighting Design) designs concurrently for Broadway, film and the music industry, most notably with design partner, . Broadway design highlights include Ragtime, Jane Eyre, Noise/Funk, Assassins and Victor Victoria. Music industry highlights include Tracy Chapman; Crosby, Stills & Nash; ; and Neil Young. Film designs include Chicago, School of Rock, , and . She is the recipient of three Tony awards and eight nominations.

MIKE BALDASSARI (Lighting Design). Tony and multiple Emmy nominated designer whose live productions have been seen in 25+ countries. Films: Ghostbusters (2016), Nine, Rock of Ages, Joyful Noise, Sex and the City 2, Neil Young Trunk Show. Broadway: Cabaret, First Date, Holler If Ya Hear Me. European: Beauty and the Beast. Family entertainment: Yo Gabba Gabba. Production Designer: Alice in Chains, co-designed Neil Young’s Chrome Dreams. Select Television: (RED) Concert/Broadcast from with: U2, ; U2’s Top of the Rock; SNL’s digital shorts; Mary J. Blige; Tim McGraw; Sam Smith; Garth Brooks “Live From Central Park.” www.mike-o-matic.com

KEITH CAGGIANO (Sound Design) has worked across the country and internationally, from musicals on Broadway and London’s West End to spectacles in Vegas and Australia. Select credits include: (Broadway / Off-Broadway) The Radio City Spring Spectacular, Cabaret, Disenchanted, Bare; (National Tours) Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Anything Goes; (Regional) , Guys and Dolls, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Little Shop of Horrors.

MICHAEL GIBSON (Orchestrations). Broadway: The Boy From Oz; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Cabaret (revival, Tony Award nomination); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (revival); Steel Pier (Tony Award nomination); Anything Goes; My One and Only (); The Rink; Woman of the Year; Over Here; Meet Me in St. Louis; Peter Pan (revival). Also orchestrated for Radio City and Ringling Bros. Circus and for such stars as Patti LuPone, Liza Minnelli, Bernadette Peters, and Chita Rivera. Film/TV: , Roseland, Still of the Night, Kennedy Center Honors, Miss America Pageant, Super Bowl, Tony Awards.

ROBERT COOKMAN (Music Director) recently toured with the band Bright Light Bright Light opening for . New York sub credits include Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular show. MD tours include: Come Fly Away (1st National), Legally Blonde, Mamma Mia! (AMD), Movin’ Out, Swing!, and Cirque du Soleil’s Banana Shpeel. Love to Des and Olivia.

PAUL HUNTLEY (Hair & Wig Design) London-born Paul Huntley has worked hundreds of Broadway shows, most memorably the original productions of Cats, Amadeus, , The Producers, , and Hairspray. A recipient of the Drama Desk and Tony awards, he has also worked with the most legendary leading ladies of the cinema, ranging from Bette Davis and to and . Current shows include and .

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