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

Original Broadway Production
Co-directed and Choreographed by Rob Marshall
Directed by Sam Mendes

CABARET
is presented by arrangement with
Tams-Witmark, A Concord Theatricals Company
www.tamswitmark.com

DIRECTOR:  Trish Van Doornum
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Liz Cook
MUSICAL DIRECTOR:  Sally Hunt
CHOREOGRAPHER:  Adam Kuss
STAGE MANAGER:  Louise Mallory

CAST:
Emcee                              Adam Kuss
Sally Bowles                   Melenie Reid
Cliff                                   Scott Boomer
Fraulein Schneider         Lucy Haines
Fraulein Kost                   Karin Thomas
Max/Ensemble                Darrell Portz
Kit Kat/Dance Captain   Dara Downey
Ernst                                 Peter Gregg
Herr Schultz                    Dustin Berube

Kit Kat Girls & Boys:                         
Kezziah Ayuno
Arden Phillips
Erin Leflar
Veronica Masik
Anthony Hurst
Simon Pawlowski
Aaron Schaan
Naomi Aerlan
Deanna Robillard

Synopsis

Cabaret takes place from 1929-1930, a time when Berlin, in the midst of a post-World War I economic depression, is transitioning from a center of underground, avant-garde cultural epicenter to the beginnings of Hitler’s totalitarian regime and the rise of the Nazi Party. Into this world enters Clifford Bradshaw, a struggling American writer looking for inspiration for his next novel. On his first night in Berlin, Cliff wanders into the Kit Kat Klub, a seedy nightclub overseen by the strange, omniscient and gender-bending Master of Ceremonies, “the Emcee.” Here, Cliff meets Sally Bowles, a vivacious, talented cabaret performer, and an utterly lost soul. Sally and Cliff begin a relationship, which blossoms unexpectedly into a dream-like romance. As time passes, however, the situation in Berlin changes from exciting and vital to ominous and violent; Ernst, Cliff’s first German friend, turns out to be an up-and-coming member of the Nazi Party, and Herr Schultz, a fellow boarder at Fraulein Schneider’s guest house (and Schneider’s fiancee), is the victim of an Anti-Semitic hate crime. When he finds out that Sally is pregnant, Cliff decides that they must leave for America at once, before things get any worse. Sally, afraid, confused, and unsure that she’ll ever really be able to trade the sexy, illicit cabaret lifestyle for motherhood, gets an abortion, and tells Cliff that he must leave without her. With a distinctly Brechtian dose of provocation and a score featuring songs that have become classics of the American Musical Theater, Cabaret is a fierce, meaty musical that pushes the boundaries of the form and literally holds “the mirror up to nature.”