Cabaret
by John Kander and Fred Ebb
Produced by special arrangements with Tams-Whitmark Music Library, Inc.
Directed by Emily Fishman
June, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18*, 23, 24, 2017
Evenings at 8 PM – Tickets $20.00
*Matinee at 2 PM – Tickets $15.00
Spotlight Theatre 129 Park Ave Swarthmore, PA 19081
Cabaret takes place in 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. 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. 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.”