CABARET
"There was a cabaret, and there was a master of ceremonies... and there was a city called Berlin, in a country called Germany...and it was the end of the world." These are the words that character Cliff Bradshaw begins writing as his train pulls out of Berlin Station in the final scenes of CABARET. Based on the John Van Druten play of 1951 "I Am A Camera" (itself based on the Christopher Isherwood book "Goodbye To Berlin), CABARET tells the story of penniless songstress Sally Bowles and the Kit Kat Klub where she works and her relationship with aspiring American author Cliff Bradshaw. At the same time, it tells the story of the residents of a Berlin rooming house during the rise of the Nazis and beginning threats of war. The songs sung by the emcee all tie to parts of the action outside the club. Sally moves in with Cliff..."Two Ladies". Sally and Cliff are running low on cash..."Sitting Pretty/Money". The Nazis are coming to power..."Tomorrow Belongs To Me". Fraulein Schneider and Heir Schultz realize there is a problem with a German marrying a Jew..."If You Could See Her (The Gorilla Song)". Through it all, Sally tries to maintain her belief that all will be well with the world and puts all of that into the title song "Cabaret". The show ends on a question mark...not on a happy note...fortunately or unfortunately, we know the answer to the question.
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Emcee
About the Costume
As the show opens, the emcee is wearing a full tailcoat tuxedo. As the show progresses, his tie and vest change.
About the Character
The emcee is a character who ties all of the action together and mirrors in the Kit Kat Club all of the things that are going on in the outside world.
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Cliff Bradshaw
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Cliff is wearing a light colored suit of the period with shirt, tie and fedora.
About the Character
Cliff is a American writer who has come to Berlin for inspiration in writing his novel. Cliff has to come to terms with his homosexuality as well as his infatuation with Sally Bowles and the decadence of life in Berlin.
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Sally Bowles
About the Costume
Sally makes her entrance in the number "Don't Tell Mama" and is wearing a a black beaded dress with black and fuschia chiffon skirt with matching scarf and a sequin beret.
About the Character
Sally is a woman who believes that life is one big party...probably being held in her honor. She drifts from man to man and place to place. When we meet her, she is working in The Kit Kat Club in Berlin just prior to WWII. She is living with the owner of the club, but soon breaks that off and moves in with our hero, Cliff Bradshaw.
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Sally Bowles
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Sally is wearing a black glittered fitted gown for the title song "Cabaret".
About the Character
Singing her final number in the show, Sally tells everyone that she still believes that life is a party that will go on forever. "Start by admitting from cradle to tomb...it isn't that long a stay...Life is a cabaret, old chum...It's only a cabaret, old chum...and I love a C-A-B-A-R-E-T!"
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Kit Kat Girls
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The girls each have a different "look". The various outfits consist of shorts, garter shorts, top, and hat.
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These are the chorus girls who perform in the Kit Kat Club.
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Kit Kat Girls -- Act II Opening
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The girls are wearing red corsets with their garter shorts and what appear to be cloche hats with flower ornaments.
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Chorus girls at the Kit Kat Club...each and everyone a virgin.
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Kit Kat Girls -- MC Reveal
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Emcee also has one of these costumes.
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Suddenly one of the Kit Kat Girls removes her wig and hat and reveals herself to be the emcee.
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Kit Kat Girls -- Stormtroopers
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Same costume. Girls reach up and pull flower off of hat and turn hats around to reveal that they are stormtrooper helmets.
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The girls and the emcee form a "goose step" line.
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Ernst
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Ernst is wearing his traveling suit with a trench coat and hat.
About the Character
Ernst befriends Cliff on the train ride into Berlin. He explains to Cliff that he travels out of Germany for various reasons on business and tells him that he can make money working as a courier for Ernst. Ernst becomes a pupil of English and studies with Cliff. Cliff makes trips to bring money into the country for Ernst until it is revealed that Ernst is a Nazi.
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Frau Schneider
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Frau Schneider is wearing a flowered housedress and an apron when she shows Cliff the room she has to rent.
About the Character
Frau Schneider is the landlady of a not so prosperous boarding house in Berlin. She laments the fact that she was once wealthy but is now poor and must work for a living.
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Herr Schultz
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Herr Schultz is wearing a 3 piece tweed suit of the period.
About the Character
Herr Schultz is a German born Jew who runs a fruit market. He is courting Frau Schneider.
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Fraulein Kost
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Fraulien Kost is wearing a navy blue dress with large light blue flowered print for the engagement party.
About the Character
Fraulien Kost is a prostitute who brings her clients to her room in Frau Schneider's boarding house making her the bane of Schneider's existence. At the engagement party, she sings the haunting "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" to entice Ernst to stay.
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TOMORROW BELONGS TO ME
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Waitresses are wearing red jackets, white vests, black skirts and bow ties. Waiters are wearing red jackets, white shirts, black pants and bow ties. Maitre'D is dressed in tuxedo. Emcee is seemingly caught while changing...being partially out of costume and removing makeup.
About the Character
Starting with a single voice and building till all are singing, the group sings the haunting melody of "Tomorrow Belongs To Me".
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SITTING PRETTY / MONEY
About the Costume
Emcee dons a green sparkly vest and bow tie. The Kit Kat Girls are also wearing green sparkly vests.
About the Character
The Emcee and Kit Kat Girls sing a combination of "Sitting Pretty" from the original Broadway version of CABARET and the song "Money" from the movie version of the show.
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TWO LADIES
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Girls are wearing short beer wench costumes with long blonde braided wigs. Emcee is wearing a red vest to match the girls.
About the Character
This song speaks of the "naughty" idea of two women living with the same man...this mirrors the fact that Cliff and Sally are living together in as Sally says "delicious sin".
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IF YOU COULD SEE HER
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Gorilla suit with bright pink bra, petticoat, and oversize ballet slippers.
About the Character
Reflecting the idea that Jews are seen as "different", the emcee sings of how people look down on he and his girlfriend who, if we looked through his eyes, would "not look Jewish at all".
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