The Story
Cabaret tells the story of a young American writer,
Clifford Bradshaw, living in Berlin at the dawn of the Nazi era. He
becomes infatuated with the giddy, gaudy decadence of the place,
epitomized by a sexy, vaguely dangerous nightclub called the Kit Kat
Club; in particular he finds himself involved with its chanteuse, sad,
flighty Sally Bowles. While Cliff and Sally drift, dreamlike, in this
happy but desperate milieu, life outside turns ugly. As the play
reaches its climax, Cliff's landlady Fraulein Schneider decides to
break her engagement to a Jewish man because she fears she will lose
her license if she does not. Cliff decides to leave the world of
Berlin and the Kit Kat Club behind him, but Sally, believing that
"life is a cabaret," decides to stay behind.
Production Director:
Deian Ping
Musical Director: Ben Murray
Choreographer: Roxanne Harding
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
Broadway production directed by Harold Prince
Produced for the Broadway Stage by Harold Prince
