“Jessica and I were talking one day when she was in Paris,” Karimkhani explains, “and she said what they were doing out there was just a wealth of cabaret works. And we thought, ‘We have to do a cabaret and bring this art form to Colorado.’”
“There’s no fourth wall in cabaret,” adds Gabrielle. “It’s kind of a mash-up of musical theater, a play and giving a concert, where you’re talking to the audience but you’re still telling a story using props and maybe costume changes. It’s a mix of worlds.”
“At one of our meetings,” Karimkhani continues, “the question came up — ‘How’s the boy situation going?’ And the theme of our cabaret grew from that: relationships and finding love in the modern age.”
The world premiere of There’s Nothing Rougher Than Love opens tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe Street; tickets, $15, are available at lannies.com. Nothing Rougher will play a couple more Colorado gigs this month, after which the ladies will take their act to Paris for its European preview. Learn more at jessicagabrielle.com.
Mon., Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m., 2014
