Jaggasar, Thomas in Cabaret tonight

LOCAL parang queen Alicia Jaggasar is one of the headlining acts for tonight’s Cabaret at the Kaiso Blues Café at 8:30pm.

In this semi-staged production operatic tenor John Thomas plans to treat the audience to treasured classics of yesteryear, featuring oldies but goodies from Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Rogers and Hammerstein.

Others on the cast are Kyle Richardson who plans to spice things up with his tribute to Shirley Bassey, singing one of her more popular tunes, dressed in “character”. L A Rose will add a fusion of both new and old.

Joining them will be young and upcoming Kita Gadsby, who is making a name for herself as a soloist of the Lydian Singers and the EPAF artist collective.

Other EPAF artist collective performers for the evening include Aaron Mark Alleyne, who can be regularly seen on DC Shell’s stages portraying several storybook characters, Music Festival Musical Theatre Champion Jeanine Clarke Jackson, Music Festival Champion Maxine Greaves, ANENO’s Noel Espinoza and UTT music Bachelor student Kiana Tinto.

“The evening promises to be one of nostalgia, and delight, almost bringing back dinner theatre to the island as you can have dinner and watch us perform,” Thomas said in a media release. “It’s not every day you get a stellar cast doing a production of this standard for a nominal nightclub cover-charge!” He described the evening as one full of good entertainment for almost all ages.