My Many Muses (2023) 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 Eurydice (2024), premiering in the summer of 2024.

The 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

Photo captured from Jesse McAnally’s video

About Kevin Keller

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”. https://www.kevin-t-keller.com/about

Photo by étude

Photo captured from Jesse McAnally’s video

Photo captured from Jesse McAnally’s video

My Many Muses: A Broadway Cabaret

Kevin Keller