From Friday to Sunday, October 12 to 14, the Young Centre for the Performing Arts in the Distillery District opens its doors to the fifth annual Global Cabaret Festival, a smorgasbord of creative one-hour cabarets featuring outstanding Toronto singers, musicians, dancers and theatre artists.
It's a chance to see remarkable performers like Brent Carver, Jackie Richardson and Jean Stilwell up close. I'm especially excited that Judith Lander is performing an hour of songs by Kurt Weill, Jacques Brel and Stephen Sondheim, since I grew up listening to her on the original cast album of the 1972 Off-Broadway show Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill.
"Dennis Lee's Toronto" should also be fun: it's former Toronto Poet Laureate Dennis Lee's songbook of tunes that should have been written about this city throughout its history.
Patricia O'Callaghan (pictured) is especially busy. She performs a cabaret called "Heart of the Song", which traces the journey of traditional Irish folk songs through world culture (with Julia Aplin, John Gzowski, Miranda Mulholland, Andrea Nann and Joe Phillips). She also appears in a diverse range of other presentations, including one based on the songs from the musical Oliver! with musical direction by the always interesting John Millard, a Brazilian bossa nova show, an opera potpourri, and "Bohemians in Brooklyn", which visits the artists and thinkers at large in 1940s Brooklyn.
Admission to the Global Cabaret Festival ranges from $20 for single advance tickets to $108 for a pass that grants admission to six shows, plus reduced prices on others. To buy tickets and for further information, call the Young Centre box office at 416-866-8666 or visit the Global Cabaret Festival online.
Photo credit: Jason Hudson. Patricia O'Callaghan performs with Mike Ross at the 2011 Festival.
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