Walk through the doors of the Key City Public Theater playhouse and be transported back in time to a glitzy New York City cabaret in the midst of the 1940s.

The lights are dim, the drinks are flowing and soft piano music fills the air as the crowd chatters at their tables.

Key City Public Theater is throwing the best party in town, as their new play, “The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen through the Eyes of Cole Porter,” opens June 7 at 7 p.m.

Featuring Key City’s resident actress Christa Holbrook and guest artists Matthew Alexander, Michael Covert and Selena Tibert, the play is a musical revue of Cole Porter’s classic songs.

Cole Porter, the archetypal American composer and songwriter, wrote his best-known songs during the Jazz Age and is known for classics such as “Let’s Do it (Let’s Fall in Love)” and “Anything Goes,” winning the first Tony Award for musical theater.

“He saw the end of World War I, lived through the Great Depression and World War II,” said Bry Kifolo, the play’s director. “He wrote party songs as a way to still live.”

“The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen through the Eyes of Cole Porter” features some of his most iconic songs, as well as some that are less widely known. The play is a 1940s-style cabaret, where the four actors sing their way through Porter’s repertoire.

And though it is fun to travel back in time to a 1940s cabaret, Porter’s songs, which mostly deal with themes of love, or the loss of love, are timeless.

“Those feelings of love carry over to any generation,” said actor Michael Covert. “They’re still things we experience today.”

For Kifolo, who is an artistic apprentice at Key City Public Theater, directing a play that is mostly in song was a new and exciting challenge.

“There’s the combination of storytelling through music,” she said. “We still have a storyline. So the question is then how do we make something come alive not through words, but through the musicality of the words.”

This is the second full-length play Kifolo is directing at Key City. In December, she took on the spirited “Every Christmas Story Ever Told,” and in March directed several short plays at Playfest.

Directing a musical is “infinitely larger” than her other projects at Key City, Kifolo said. But her directorial strengths, combined with music director Linda Dowdell and the four actors’ singing chops, has made the play into an effortless party.

Backed up by Dowdell’s jazz piano, a cellist and drums, the four actors sing and dance their way around the audience, who can sit back, drink in hand and enjoy the soiree.

“The atmosphere we’re creating is for the audience,” Kifolo said. “Who doesn’t need to just kick back and party sometimes?”