Variety KC Presents the 2025 Variety Show: Annie
August 2nd (2:00pm and 7:00pm) and August 3rd (3:00pm), 2025
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Variety KC presents the REIMAGINED Variety Show, an all-inclusive professional stage production featuring professional actors of all abilities.
When you attend this amazing production, you will be taken away on a magical journey across the stage.
Auditions
Audition Dates: February 20th & 21st, 2025
Audition Location: Starlight Theatre’s Applause Club, 4600 Starlight Rd., Kansas City, MO
Audition Times: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (both days)
About Variety Show
For children with disabilities, participation in the theater serves as an invaluable tool, helping them grasp concepts and develop skills in a way that honors their unique learning needs. Inclusive theater not only provides therapeutic benefits but also fosters confidence, nurtures friendships, and creates a space where joy and creativity flourish.
This event exemplifies Variety KC’s commitment to inclusion by showcasing the talents of individuals with diverse abilities and promoting a sense of belonging within the community. Variety KC also hopes to provide opportunities for children who dream of performing on stage by allowing them to see themselves represented by another actor who looks like them. Variety KC aims to inspire these children and show them that their dream can come true.
In addition to the professional cast, Variety KC hopes to include a minimum of 20 children with a wide variety of disabilities, both cognitive and physical, in the stage production of Annie. These children will appear on stage as part of the actual musical production. Furthermore, an additional 20 children with various disabilities will have an opportunity to participate off-stage in roles such as lighting, set design, stagehands, costuming, and front-of-house operations.
Variety KC will provide apprenticeships covering various aspects of theater production, ensuring that children of all abilities have a place in the show. In total, this production aims to serve a minimum of 40 children with diverse disabilities, offering them a unique and enriching theatrical experience.
Variety Children’s Charity of Greater Kansas City (Variety KC) wants to be the most trusted and effective children’s charity in the world, delivering every child equality and a future without limits. Variety KC’s mission is to support children of ALL abilities to Be Active, Be Social, and BELONG.
Variety KC empowers children with disabilities in the Greater Kansas City region by providing access to vital medical equipment for mobility, sensory, communication, safety, therapies, and more. Variety KC requests funds to underwrite the direct costs of these services. Grants and donations we receive will increase the number of families we can serve, continuing our history of positive impact while helping us to expand our coverage offerings to more and more families. All monies raised for Variety KC stay in the Greater Kansas City area. Variety KC’s inclusive mission provides essential mobility equipment and opportunities for children with cognitive and physical disabilities.
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