If you love cabaret, there's a mid-April weekend just for you.

On April 18, the Enquirer's Footlights series, in partnership with the League of Cincinnati Theatres, returns with Sing!Cinnati, a celebration of locally written musical theater featuring our town's best talent at the Aronoff's Fifth Third Bank Theater.

How's this for talent?

• David Kisor, composer of those tuneful holiday musicals at Ensemble (including The Frog Princess and Alice in Wonderland), will perform some of his favorite original work.

• Ken Jones, Chistine Jones and Jamey Strawn will preview their new musical comedy BurgerTown, which will have its world premiere in July at Northern Kentucky University Summer Dinner Theatre.

• Janet Vogt and Mark Friedman are having growing success with family musical Green Gables, but you'll also get a preview of War Games, which is a "family" show for grown-ups on the theme of divorce.

• Scot Woolley, a name synonymous with musical theater in Cincinnati for two decades, will also have work featured, performed by some to-be-named artists.

Sing!Cinnati will have 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. performances. Tickets are $20 and benefit the League of Cincinnati Theatres. For reservations, call 241-7469.

The Enquirer Footlights series invites readers downtown and behind-the-scenes with theaters, theater artists and restaurants.

Fund-raising concert

On April 19, New Voice Theater Company (planning its official debut in 2004-05) will present a one-night-only fund-raiser, Broadway Belters: The Ladies Singing Their Songs, at 7:30 p.m. at the 20th Century in Oakley Square.

Local belters Pamela Day and Kathy Lutz will be joined in songs from Gypsy, Dream Girls, Follies, Chicago and more by some Broadway pals of New Voice co-founder Richard Oberacker.

Jessica Hendy, currently in Disney's Aida; Kristy Cates, in this year's big Broadway hit Wicked; and Ta'Rea Campbell, now in the Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors, who raised the roof in New Voice's concert staging of Oberacker's The Gospel According to Fishman last year, will all come in from New York.

Oberacker will be flying in from Las Vegas, where he's in rehearsals as conductor of the new Cirque du Soleil show at the MGM Grand Casino and Hotel.

Tickets are $20 at the door. No advance reservations.

Jackie Demaline