MACABARET is a spooky vaudeville first performed at The Duplex is New York City in 1994. Since then, the show has had over thirty productions, in cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Seattle, Nashville, Sarasota, Dayton and others. In 2012, MACABARET had its international premiere in Madrid, Spain.

MACABARET was originally written for a cast of five (3 women, 2 men), but has been performed with larger casts and smaller (2 w, 2 m.) The script and score are adaptable, as numerous new songs have been written for various productions over time. Each company makes the show its own. While usually presented in a late-night cabaret format with a running time of about an hour, the show has also been performed in a two-act version. 

Learn more at https://robhartmann.com/macabaret.

Macabaret Original Chicago Cast

Macabaret (Finale)

R.I.P.

Boogie Woogie Boogieman

Killing Time

Moon in the Window

Marriage is Murder

Ghost of a Chance

Grave Mistake

Medium

Scatter My Ashes (All Over Manhattan)

Dear Dr. Kevorkian #1

Dead End Job

Macabaret

Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and author Agatha Christie each vanished mysteriously: Agatha disappeared for eleven days; Aimee disappeared for three weeks; and of course Amelia vanished completely. 

VANISHING POINT, a musical comedy-fantasy, brings these three women together as they solve the mystery of their disappearances from their own lives. 

The show has a cast of three: the women play not only their central role but also each others’ mothers, husbands, friends, reporters, and so on. Learn more at https://robhartmann.com/vanishing-point.

Vanishing Point Demo

When I Am the Wind

Tell Us, Mrs. Christie

The Plot, Part 2

On the Way

Lady Lindy Reprise

How Do You Do It?

The Heat

The Plot

Lady Lindy

The Atlantic

Adventure, Spectacle, Mystery

ROB HARTMANN received his MFA from New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, where he was a member of the faculty for 15 years. Rob has had more than a dozen musicals produced across the United States in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Nashville. In New York, his work has been heard at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. Most-performed works: Vanishing Point, which has had 12 productions in the US and also in Madrid; and Macabaret, which recently saw its 30th production in the US and which won "Best Short Musical" for its production in Spain. 

Other projects: for Meat & Potato Theatre of Salt Lake City, Aliens: The Puppet Musical (a parody version of the movie Aliens); Farmers Market the Musical, a community musical which premiered in West Virginia; a commissioned musical for the Monterey Bay Aquarium; songs in the web series Merce; and songs in the upcoming Waiting In the Wings, which will open in Los Angeles in early 2021.

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