The Lake Braddock Theatre Presents CABARET

In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret  explores the dark, heady and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken with English singer Sally Bowles. Meanwhile, Fräulein Schneider, proprietor of Cliff and Sally’s boarding house, tentatively begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish.

Throughout the play more and more alarming changes are clearly happening in Germany and to its residents, as the denizens of the Kit Kat club find themselves unable to ignore the looming horrors that are closing in all around them.  An urgently needed warning against the danger of inaction in the face of fascism and authoritarianism, this show stands as one of the most famous and important musicals ever written.

Tickets can be found at lbtheatre.com/box-office