Close Encounters With Music: Come to the Cabaret! Paris and Weimar Berlin

TICKETS $35 Balcony / $60 Orchestra (plus processing fees) Mahaiwe Member Discount Event Member Sale: Wednesday, August 26 at noon Public Sale: Friday, August 28 at noon Members receive $5 off each ticket With this extraordinary program, the internationally celebrated performer Yael Rasooly, known for her magnetic stage presence, powerful vocals, and virtuoso puppetry, makes her CEWM debut, masterfully weaving together the bold, satirical songs of the Weimar era and Edith Piaf’s Paris. In moving tributes to legendary artists Piaf and Marlene Dietrich, singer-actress-director Rasooly and pianist Daniel Rein evoke the richly decadent world of 1920s-30s Berlin and Paris through their distinctive, theatrical approach to a varied repertoire of Berlin cabaret songs (think Kurt Weill!) and poetic French chansons. The program intertwines music and visual storytelling as Rasooly channels these legendary women of song through mime, elaborate costumes, and specially created life-size puppets, transporting us to a bygone era while illuminating timeless themes. Her storytelling combines a unique perspective of song, humor and puppetry that audiences will not soon forget. Yael Rasooly, singer, actress, director; Rafael Castillo-Halvorssen, horn; Daniel Rein, piano