Theatre
After graduation Cahoon made his Broadway debut in The Who's Tommy. On Broadway he has created the roles of Ed the Hyena in The Lion King directed by Julie Taymor, George in The Wedding Singer, The Childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, as well as the revival of The Rocky Horror Show.
He left his role in The Lion King to standby for John Cameron Mitchell in the title role of Hedwig in Hedwig and The Angry Inch at The Jane Street Theater Off-Broadway, eventually taking over the role and starring as 'Hedwig' in Boston, The Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, and an extended eight month run at The Victoria Theatre in San Francisco. Kevin is also featured in the documentary film Whether You Like It Or Not: The True Story of Hedwig.
Off-Broadway Kevin originated the role of Phil D'Armano in Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party at The Manhattan Theatre Club. After originating the role of Ellard opposite Matthew Broderick in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of 'The Foreigner', Cahoon received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor. This past summer Kevin originated the role of Charley/Bobby in The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World at Playwright's Horizon.
For New York's City Center Encore's! Series he has been seen as Woof in Hair and Peter in Babes in Arms and has performed regionally in such theatre's as The Berkshire Theatre Festival, NY Stage and Film, The Zachary Scott Theatre, and portrayed the role of Gus in Garland Wright's production of Babes In Arms at The Guthrie. He has been seen recently in "The Shaggs" off-Broadway at Playwrite's Horizons as Charley/Bobbey.
Kevin recently created the role of Hans Christian Andersen in My Fairytale for California's Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. Original idea & concept by Flemming Enevold, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Philip LaZebnik. Kevin starred in this production in the summer of 2011.
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Famous quotes containing the word theatre:
“... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one’s mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“Glorious bouquets and storms of applause ... are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one’s own life.”
—Dame Alice Markova (b. 1910)
“The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.”
—Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923)