Cabaret

Book by Joe Masteroff
Based on the play "I am a camera" by John van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood
Music by John Kander / vocal lyrics by Fred Ebb German by Robert Gilbert
In the reduced orchestral version by Chris Walker

"Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome, Fremder, Etranger, Stranger ..." Welcome to Berlin at the end of the 1920s. A time characterized by a legendarily debauched nightlife, extreme poverty and the rise of fascism. It is to this Berlin that the young American author Clifford Bradshaw travels and falls in love with the nightclub dancer Sally Bowles. Both dream of a bright future: she as an actress, he as a successful writer. But when Cliff witnesses the onset of fascist and anti-Jewish terror against his landlady's fiancé, he wants to leave Germany with Sally. Such a scenario seemed to lie in the distant past for many years, but is now experiencing a sad renaissance, making "Cabaret" the musical of the moment once again.