Musical· 1966· Drama

Cabaret

by John Kander

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Cabaret

Film · 1972

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Bob Fosse's film adapts the Kander and Ebb musical about Sally Bowles and the Kit Kat Klub in Weimar Berlin as the Nazis rise. It keeps songs only for performances on the club's stage, cuts others, adds new ones, and returns to Isherwood's stories for its secondary characters.

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Cabaret

An American writer lodges in a Berlin boarding house at the end of the Weimar years and takes up with a nightclub singer, while a landlady's engagement to a Jewish grocer falls apart around them. Every song is performed inside the Kit Kat Klub by a master of ceremonies who comments on the country rather than on the characters, which is the device that lets the show watch its own audience.