Silk Road Cabaret: Broadway Sings the Silk Road features songs from popular Broadway musicals set along the Silk Road – from Pacific Overtures to Two Gentlemen of Verona to Jesus Christ Superstar to The Kind and I to Zorba to Miss Saigon, and many more in between. This bold and harmonious East-West interplay blends music with personal stories and showcases performers of diverse backgrounds as they claim, reclaim, subvert, and poke un at a host of old favorites from the Broadway repertoire.

From Artistic Director Jamil Khoury

Welcome to Silk Road Cabaret: Broadway Sings the Silk Road. It’s high time we do a cabaret! And oh what fun it is.

Armed with a few dozen original cast recordings, I selected a bunch of my favorite songs and enlisted the brilliant creativity of director Elizabeth Margolius, music director Gary Powell, and a stellar group of performers.

Silk Road Cabaret is a playful and ironic twist on our commitment to showcasing playwrights of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean backgrounds. We’re calling it a “departure piece.”

The composers and lyricists who created what became these almost “iconic representations” of Silk Road peoples. Whether steeped in historical reality or whimsical fantasy, cultural authenticity or crude caricature, these beloved musicals have influenced our perceptions of the Silk Road for decades. Sometimes for better and sometimes for worse.

So in true Silk Road Theatre Project fashion we are reclaiming the mantle of representation and making each song our own. Life is indeed a cabaret, ole chum!

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