![]() She has fashioned an intriguing device – a series of soliloquies with music by different fans who encounter each of the singers in their natural environment. We all are the “Nobodies” who learn something from the divas and ourselves in a series of encounters proficiently overwritten by a talented Australian playwright, Joanna Murray-Smith. She channels not only their voices but the very different young women who encounter them - in a hotel restroom, backstage, at a nightclub, in a family memory or on a yacht. It is built piece by piece by one fabulous singer, Bethany Thomas, handling the stylings of and reactions to five famous divas ( Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Maria Callas). The opening show of the season, “Songs for Nobodies,” is actually a dialogue play with music structured around all the young “nobodies” who encounter the famous. So the shows are tricked out in elaborate sets, sound effects and lighting – more than needed to please these patrons but also offering theatrical elements of timing and stage interplay they do appreciate. It is the Rep more than the crowd that’s determined to make each outing something deeper than a cabaret revue. 9, neatly redecorated and expanded in table seating to about 190 customers, with a second bar outside with large TVs for live streaming and (inevitably on opening night) a crowd eager to watch the Packers miraculously come back against the Bears after the music subsided. The Milwaukee Rep formally opened its renovated Stackner Cabaret Sept. Milwaukee Repertory Theater presents the American Premiere of Songs for Nobodies by Joanna Murray-Smith in the Stackner Cabaret from September 7 – Novemfeaturing Bethany Thomas with Abdul Hamid Royal on Piano and Alicia Storin on Cello. ![]()
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