May 27, 2009
The members of Alacartoona were born a century later than their act would suggest. Inspired by the cabarets of Weimar Republic Berlin, the Kansas City troupe puts a modern spin on that era’s abundant creativity and absurdity. We caught up with Alacartoonists Erin McGrane, Christian Hankel, Kyle Dahlquist, and Gregg Jackson at the start of a very busy week that will find the group filming a movie at KC’s Off Center Theatre. They performed four songs live for us and availed their strategies for dealing with crowds who bite and stab.

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