Background Midnight Cabaret is a theatrical group at Sarah Lawrence College inspired by the Neo-Futurists. It is completely student-run; that is, student-written, student-produced, student-directed, and student-performed. They create a different show every week Sarah Lawrence College is in session, with each week's cast being comprised of students who volunteered to be in the show that week. The only two permanent cast-members of Midnight Cabaret are the Co-Chairs, who run the administrative aspects of Midnight Cabaret, a show made up of individual pieces. Pieces can be sketches, songs, dances, audience participation, performance art, or readings. The current co-chairs are Michael Mietlicki and yoshi kuroi.
Cabaret premiered in A*Space, an entirely student-run art gallery, in early 2005. In February of 2005, Cabaret tried out a new performance space, Titsworth Lecture Hall, and the remainder of the shows have been presented in this location. Cabaret has been a host to an enormous array of very different performances. Some students choose to present pieces they have worked on in the past, while some develop concepts within the rehearsal process. Some students present things they have been working on in classes (Indian dance, for example, or Vocal Performance), while others develop pieces solely for Cabaret purposes.
Schedule Monday
The Co-Chairs announce the theme word or phrase for that week and allow each cast-member to discuss what the theme means to them. Then each cast-member says any piece ideas they may have. Cast-members volunteer to write pieces. Finally, the cast selects MCs and a title for that week's show. (Bessie Schoenberg Dance Studio)
Tuesday
Writers write.
Wednesday
All the scripts written are read through and cast. (Bessie Schoenberg Dance Studio)
Thursday
All the pieces are staged and run through. (Bessie Schoenberg Dance Studio)
Friday
The pieces are rehearsed again and any technical concerns are addressed. The show is then performed at midnight, thus the name "Midnight Cabaret." (Titsworth Lecture Hall)
History/Archive
SEASON ONE #No Puppet Sex #The Orangina Monologues #Brought To You By The Letter Y With Legs #If I Orgasmed, It Would Be In French #There's No Such Thing As Safe Sex With Werewolves #Where's Wally? #Camp Terabac: Are You A Mean One Or A Happy One #If Heartaches Were Wine, I'd Be Drunk All The Time #In The Land Of TV, The Man With No Brain Is King #This Week At Cabaret, Everyone Gets Laid #The Last Hook Up You'll Get This Year: A Black Tie Affair
SEASON TWO: #Midnight Madness #The Last Temptation Of The First Years #Don't Forget To Have Your Pets Spayed Or Neutered #We're Here For Your Pleasure, At Your Leisure #Do It On A Table #It's Zulu, Not Jew-Lu #Your Son Will Come Out Tomorrow #How Do You Know I'm Not A Robot? #Cabaret Stole My Virginity In The Back Of An El Camino #Free Pizza...No, Seriously...Free Pizza #SLC Fight Club #Is There Anything Sadder Than A Small Dog That's Constipated? (Or Jeff on a tricycle?) #Cabaret's Whizzbangin' Super-Sparkly Extra Merry with a Side of Potato Latkes Holiday Spectacular #I Feel Britty And Witty And Gay! #Happy F*cking Birthday, Cabaret! #Mr. P Presents: Hott 'N $tylin' #Why Can't Sheep Drive? #For Lovers Everywhere #No President Sex #Four Score And Seven Years Ago, I Did Your Mom #Oh My God, I'm Turning Into Meaghan! #Can I Stuff My Pants For This? #Milk and Other Liquids You Can Snorkel Through #A Brief History Of The Collective Conscious of Cabaret #Cabaret Cliff's Notes (Or Three Sluts And Jeni) #Steal This Cabaret
SEASON THREE: #Midnight Madness 2 or I'm Fed Up With These M-F Snakes On My M-F Cabaret #Are You Afraid Of Cabaret In The Dark? #Obsession...by SLC Cabaret #Et Tu, Pillow? #There's No Place Like Cabaret! #142% Chance Of Singing In The Acid Rain #Leave Room For Jesus #Boo! It's Abortion! (But Only If Ross Wade Is Comfortable!) #No Mold, No Problem #What's Up With Women? #Stuff This! #Hello And Welcome To The Biannual Fringe And Avant-Garde Festival For Dead And Troubled Youth #Nevan Is A Carcinogen: Cabaret Turns 50! #This Year, We'll Be Good #If You Love Me So Much, Why Are You Making Out With THAT? #A Plague On Both Your Houses: Watch Beth Juggle Flaming Monkeys #I Have A Memory Like, I Don't...Poop! #Mail Order Goats? #Five Men Wearing The Same Baby #For A Limited Time Only! #Biodegradable Plastic Sex #The Cabaret That Almost Wasn't #What Is A Guttersnipe? #What Is The Word? Cookies! #If I Had Easy Access To Scorpions... #A Hodgepodge of Amazingness
SEASON FOUR #Jodie Sweetin's PBJ #Surprise Brontosaurus #Stalin For Time: Delicious Fruity Flavor #I Want That Bear To Lick My Baby #Designer DNA In A Hot Dog Truck From A Hot Dog Truck A Hot Dog Truck #Garden Gnomes Are Scary = Vibrators? #Now I Can Pick Up Anything! #Hummus Ejaculation By Anton Chekhov #Where's Pam? #Children's Television Workshop Presents: They're Always After Me Lucky Charms If You Know What I Mean #Sex Talk: Fugettaboutit #Mary Desires Robots OR Say Click and Bend Over #Close Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes #Eggnog #My Crippled Ponies #That's What They Said About Polka #Phillip Trent, Time Detective: in 'I Carbon-Dated Your Mom' #Matthew Chen Wants YOU To Be A Lesbian #Rutgers Drama Ballkick #So You Want To Be A Coke Dealer #Strawberry Alarm Clock #Please Don't Beat My Wombat #Midnight Fucking Cabaret! #Penislap #Sydney, On A Chair, Alone #Dedicated to Baggins Lougheed #Calm Down, Let's All Take Our Clothes Off #My Teeth Can't Bite Anything That's Outside My Head #Now You Stick YOUR Finger In Mummy's Lacy Intimate Undergarments!
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In addition to the weekly performances, Midnight Cabaret also plays host and sponsor to a number of other theatrical endeavors. Since its induction, Cabaret has presented four festivals comprised entirely of student-written one acts fifteen to twenty minutes in length, as well as a production of William Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale and the premiere (staged reading) of a new musical, Brick by Brick, by playwright Ross Wade, which later received a full production by the Sarah Lawrence theater department.