Re-Spiced: A Silk Road Cabaret isn’t your mother’s cabaret. It’s bold, colorful, eclectic, relevant and shockingly subversive. I’ve seen a lot of cabaret in my time, but nothing quite like the experience I had last night.
Directed by Steve Scott, this primarily Asian and Middle-Eastern cast delivers the eclectic American and British song and narrative selection of Jamil Khoury with punch, pizazz, and moments of seduction.
Re-Spiced: A Silk Road Cabaret devised by the innovative and bold Jamil Khoury is fun, uplifting and ripe with the hope, promise and energy delivered by a boundless youthful cast. Re-Spiced is a great show for the whole family.
[This] is the rare cabaret evening that allows you to both enjoy and examine the cultural assumptions underpinning some well-loved songs — and the prose sections in "Re-Spiced" may send you on a mission to add some intriguing new flavors to your reading list.
While some of the songs are familiar, Re-Spiced casts them in a fresh, thought-provoking context that’s at once unexpected, engaging and at times even a bit startling.
There is a lot to like and learn from Re-Spiced, Silk Road Rising's new cabaret that lets us listen and laugh, reflecting on how far we have come, and how far there is yet to go.
The mix of contemporary and classic tunes alone makes this cabaret worth seeing. But Re-Spiced is smarter than your average evening of great music...
As staged by director Steve Scott and choreographer Brenda Didier, the show succeeds on the basic level of being an enjoyable cabaret sung and danced with vigor and verve by a cast long on Asians and short on Caucasians.
Re-Spiced is a rare and admirable production that perfectly combines thought provoking content with an overwhelming sensibility of lighthearted fun.
A winning cast of eight ably sells both that story and Ryan Brewster’s accomplished arrangements, which offer musical satisfaction as well as a lyrical clarity...
Under the direction of Steve Scott and choreographer Brenda Didier, the actors work especially well as an ensemble (the individual voices are a mixed bag)... All in all, a well-spiced, thought-provoking entertainment.
Re-Spiced takes the audience 10,000 feet off the ground to see the world from a different perspective.
