Salem theater to present Broadway cabaret

Staff report

SALEM

Salem Community Theatre will present “People Will Say We’re in Love,” a cabaret show featuring Niki Slaven and Bret Cowden performing songs from the Golden Age of Broadway, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance at 330-332-9688 or at the door. The theater is at 490 E. State St., downtown.

Slaven, a soprano, and Cowden, a baritone, have appeared in many stage productions at SCT. They will be joined by several special guests for the show, which is a fundraiser for the theater.

Duets and solos from “The Sound of Music,” “Cabaret,” “West Side Story,” “Oklahoma,” “Anything Goes” and more will be performed.

Slaven’s theatrical endeavors began at SCT and Stage Left Players a decade ago. She has performed at both venues as well as Salem High School and Kent State University, and also has trained in tap, jazz, ballet and singing.

Cowden has been singing most of his life. He got his start in musical theater while in college. He has appeared in “The Marriage of Figaro” with Undercroft Opera Company of Pittsburgh and as Count Almaviva in the same opera with Malone Opera Theatre. His history at SCT goes back more than a decade, with his most-recent role as Beadle in “Sweeney Todd” last fall. He also was music director for that production.