“My Many Muses”:
A Broadway Cabaret
2023 – February 24 | The Congregation
My Many Muses is a cabaret concept that brings together the women from throughout Kevin’s career and has him celebrate them as he selects songs he's always dreamed of seeing them perform or moments he's longed to relive again. Throughout the evening Kevin reminisces on the life shared with these artists, the moment they became a "muse" in his mind, all while encouraging the audience to fall in love with them just as much as he has.
My Many Muses invited guests to celebrate these amazing artists with drinks, food, and a lot of love at Detroit’s historic venue turned gathering-space, The Congregation. Guests were able to extend their support in a number of ways including auction items, raffles, and a special cocktail – proceeds of which are being utilized to create his original theatre work, set to premiere in the summer of 2024. To learn more about this project and to stay up to date, click here.
Kevin Keller
Show Program
Grand Entrance – All
Blue Wind – Sarah Gunter-Marenger
Safer – Katie Akers
Come to Your Senses – Sydney Studer
Could I Leave You? – Kristina Riegle*
Journey to the Past – Sara Kmiec
When He Sees Me – Alyssa Alonte
Beautiful – Hannah Rittmueller & Kevin Keller
Hot Honey Rag – Maddy Petz & Bella Brown
How Can I Wait? – Katie Akers
Another Life – Sara Kmiec
Always Better – Kristina Riegle
Map of Scars – Sarah Gunter-Marenger
Busted – Katie Akers & Alyssa Alonte
Homeward Bound – Kevin Keller
C’est La Vie – All (with the Audience)
Artists
Kevin Keller – Director
Brooks Hoste – Pianist
Jesse McAnally – Videographer
Volunteers – Gabby Heabeart, Jessica Mossner, Sammi Clark
The Muses – Katie Akers, Alyssa Alonte, Bella Brown, Sarah Gunter-Marenger, Kevin Keller, Sara Kmiec, Maddy Petz, Kristina Riegle*, Hannah Rittmueller, Sydney Studer
* – did not perform, part of the creation process
Join Kevin in his career study of dancers in theatre. Working with all types of performers, Kevin challenges himself to develop a pedagogy and practice that allows for anyone to access the theatrical arts, both performers and audience alike.
About Kevin
Kevin Keller is a Detroit-based multidisciplinary theatre artist who specializes in Acting, Directing, and Playwriting, but if you let him, he’ll dance for you a little bit as well. His directorial and playwriting work focuses on merging theatre and dance, prioritizing movement passages in his plays, and casting dancers in speaking roles. Under his direction, Kevin seeks to expand the skillset and vocabulary of the dancers and actors he collaborates with. Kevin has been seen onstage at Detroit Rep, the Jewish Ensemble Theatre, The Ringwald, and Riverbank Theatre. Past writing credits include Something Gay: A Brief Hookup which was a finalist and staged for the 2020 Louise Heck-Rabi playwriting festival and Front of House which was commissioned by Wayne State University in 2021. Kevin also developed a new adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s Spring’s Awakening which was performed in 2019 with his Wayfaring Theatre Company concept, as well as writing and consulting on Taylor Craft’s the semi-truck that blocks my view is still beautiful.
