(SUMMIT, NJ) -- Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre is presenting a Valentine’s Day Cabaret, Kindred Spirits, on Thursday, February 11 at 7:30pm on Zoom. This collection of songs about love in all its variety is a pairing of musical performance and video taken by the singers and edited by director Laura Ekstrand. The performance will be followed by an online talkback with the artists.
Songs range from Great American Songbook classics like “The Way You Look Tonight” and “Keepin’ Out of Mischief” to selections from the modern musical theatre like “Still Hurting” from The Last Five Years and “Love is an Open Door” from Frozen. Pop music from a range of eras is also in the mix, from the Beatles’ “I Will” to “Don’t Change” by Musiq Soulchild. The singers have enlisted their friends and family to help in creating video footage that is shaped into individual vignettes for each song.
The Fae Dreamcatcher is used to lower the Barrier and open the Cache of the Night that is located on Darkreach on Ardenweald. To build the Fae Dreamcatcher you have to find three items around Ardenweald, they are objects that you have to interact with to loot the item, they are: Fae Ornament, Enchanted Bough and Raw Dream Fibers. Live Your Dream Life. “Go find yourself first so that you can find me.” ― Rumi The twin flame journey is one of finding your kindred spirit—that ultimate dream partner with whom you share unconditional love and who awakens your true potential with that love.
Participating in the Kindred Spirits cabaret are Clark Carmichael (Montclair), Harry Patrick Christian (Montclair), Laura Ekstrand (Livingston), Sandy Fenelus (Elizabeth), Julian Blake Gordon (Jersey City), Shabazz Green (Summit), Gail Lou (Englewood), and Scott McGowan (Maplewood). The show is directed and edited by artistic director Laura Ekstrand, assistant directed by Daria M. Sullivan (Montclair) and sound designed by Jeff Knapp (Randoilph).
The performance will be on Zoom at 7:30pm on Thursday, February 11, and the registration fee is $20. If attendance is not possible live, register for the event and send an email to info@dreamcatcherrep.org to receive a link to a recording of the show that must be watched by February 15. The direct registration link is: Kindred Spirits.
Dreamcatcher was founded in 1994 as a non-profit professional ensemble of actors, a subset of whom perform in every production. The mission of our ensemble is to build community with the audience by sharing contemporary, life-affirming stories that challenge, energize and entertain. We seek to expose theatregoers to ideas and lives like and unlike their own, to awaken their imaginations and create empathy for others. The company focuses on deepening the experience of our patrons by supplementing the performances with personal contact through receptions, talkbacks and interactive programs.
Dreamcatcher's core company of professional local actors performs contemporary work that entertains and challenges, and has at its heart a belief in the essential goodness of people. The company’s activities include mainstage productions, improv comedy and cabarets, new play readings and a variety of educational and senior outreach programs.
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Dreamcatcher’s programs are funded by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, The Summit Area Public Foundation, and many other corporations, foundations and individuals. Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre is a senior member of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance.
