Cabaret takes place in Berlin at the start of the 1930s. As an American writer makes his first trip to Germany, he finds himself in a local hot spot known as the Kit Kat Klub. As he begins an affair with the club’s star performer, an Englishwoman by the name of Sally Bowles, it seems that life is truly a cabaret. But as Germany’s economic situation worsens and the Nazi Party begins to rise in power, the problems surrounding them become harder to ignore.

Book by Joe Masteroff
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Music by John Kander
Directed by Jeremy Gable

This production of Cabaret will be staged as a show-within-a-show. When the audience walks into the theatre, they will be transported to the Kit Kat Klub, circa 1933, to attend the final performance of the theatre’s production of Cabaret before the theater closes the next day. Each performer in the show will double as a Kit Kat Klub dancer, and the show’s theatricality will be embraced, with dressing room and prop table in the audience’s view, and the entire set being suggested with tables and chairs.

Cabaret was written in 1966, and was based on John Van Druten’s play I Am A Camera, which in turn was based on the stories of Christopher Isherwood, including the novel Mr. Norris Changes Trains and a collection of short stories entitled Goodbye to Berlin. Hal Prince, who was to direct the show, commissioned the little-known composers John Kander and Fred Ebb to write the songs. The production ran for more than 1,100 performances, won eight Tony Awards--including Best Director, Best Composer & Lyricist and Best Musical--and began Kander & Ebb’s career as one of Broadway’s most revered composing teams. A revival in 1998, directed by Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes, ran for more than 2,300 performances and won four Tonys, including Best Revival of a Musical.