JUST PRETENDING: AN HONORS THESIS CABARET

Abstract

For our honors thesis, Marissa Alexandra Munter and I arranged and wrote a one-hour cabaret-style show that was performed on April 26th, 2018 at 9:30pm in Tucson, Arizona. Our cabaret, Just Pretending, was a collection of songs and stories that gave insight into both past experiences of our lives as well as opportunities to come with graduation and the beginning of our professional careers. We spent the year alongside our faculty advisors finding material we wanted to perform, constructing the theme of the night, writing our stories and dialogue between the songs, and rehearsing the show leading up to the performance. We each sang four solo pieces along with four duets for a total of twelve songs, which we broke up with stories and patter between them. While I tackled the writing of our dialogue and flow of the performance itself, Marissa was in charge of the business aspect of the show (booking the venue, marketing the evening, etc). Just Pretending was highly successful and attended by around 35 people. We received nothing but praise about the show and hopefully were able to inspire some of the younger students at the university to create their own work in the future.