CABARET
Book by Joe Masteroff, Based on the play by John Van Druten and Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Music by John Kander | Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Directed by Richard
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CABARET Book by Joe Masteroff, Based on the play by John Van Druten and Stories by Christopher Isherwood Music by John Kander | Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Directed by Richard Waterhouse
Musical Direction by Julian Gau ’19
Choreography by Patricia Seto-Weiss
Assistant Directed by Sierra Riley ‘24
In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s draw to a close, a provocative Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken with English singer Sally Bowles. Meanwhile, Fraulein Schneider, proprietor of Cliff and Sally’s boarding house, tentatively begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish.