Cabaret

In the organizer's words:

The legend returns

After acclaimed guest performances last summer at the State Opera in Hanover and the Cologne Philharmonie, the celebrated production is returning to Hamburg, to the Hansa-Theatersaal.

And nothing has changed in terms of the play's topicality, quite the opposite: how often do we think that the times we are living through are becoming more and more like the 1920s? The seemingly unstoppable disintegration of a world order, accelerated by the re-election of Donald Trump, the resurgence of nationalism, doubts about the political class in power. It all seems strangely familiar. No other piece of musical theater describes this feeling of upheaval, which also inspires a large audience with series such as BABYLON BERLIN, as well as the American musical legend CABARET.

Based on two stories, it tells of love and its failure in politically difficult times. The American writer Cliff Bradshaw is swept into the still shimmering but increasingly darkening Berlin of the late 1920s.

Sally Bowles, a young English singer who performs at the wicked KIT-KAT-CLUB and has been used to rearranging her love life on a weekly basis, becomes his new flame. But the young love between these two strangers in Berlin is barely able to breathe, and not just because of constant existential problems. Life concepts that are difficult to reconcile and a completely different assessment of the situation in Germany ultimately lead to their separation.

The political circumstances interfere even more violently with the late, tender love affair between the boarding house landlady Fräulein Schneider and the Jewish greengrocer Mr. Schultz. Even at their engagement party, young people appear who want a completely different world order. And after a very serious attack on Schultz's store at the latest, it becomes clear that even this love cannot have a future in the Germany of the time.

A demonic emcee leads us through these stories, increasingly blurring the boundaries between show and reality with his KIT-KAT girls. "LIFE IS A CABARET" is therefore also the title song.

With this production, a new program line was opened in spring 2020 with an enthusiastically received premiere in the HANSA-Theatersaal, alongside the winter variety program, which explicitly deals with the 1920s a hundred years later. Further musical theater pieces dealing with this period will follow. In addition, the stage on Steindamm will once again become the little sister of the St. Pauli Theater. The legendary HANSA will be transformed into the glittering KIT-KAT-CLUB. Your host there will once again be the wonderful and acclaimed singer and chansonnier Tim Fischer, at the head of a top-class ensemble.

With a magnificent orchestra, great songs, exciting choreography and two touching love stories, the audience is whisked away to the golden 1920s, can immerse themselves in this attitude to life, and can also eat and drink in style with delicacies from our renowned catering partner "STRAUCHS FALCO" Hamburg HafenCity. A unique theater experience for all generations.

Price information:

Hansa-Theatersaal ticket hotline: 040 / 4711 0 644, hansa-theater.com and at all known advance booking offices