“I watched Alan Cumming’s version at the Donmar Warehouse … before it came to. “When I was in high school, I saw YouTube videos of it,” Park said.

Likewise, co-star Mason Alexander Park said the 1998 revival was also his first exposure, meaning his first Emcee template was Alan Cumming, not Joel Grey. … You realize you’re being intoxicated, entertained and slowly creeping in with the social message.” I was a 14-year-old in the mezzanine, profoundly moved / deeply scarred. “It was the second Broadway show I ever saw. “My first exposure was the 1998 revival,” Silber said.

Ironically, Silber’s first encounter was not Minnelli, but Natasha Richardson.

“‘Cabaret’ is a play about the price of complicity, the price of a neutral stance in an increasingly antagonistic world and an answer to the question: How did this happen? … When bigotry and hatred looms, what are you going to do about it?” “It basically is about the rise of fascism in the Weimar Republic,” Silber said. It explores the divinely decadent Kit Kat Club, where American writer Cliff Bradshaw falls for British cabaret star Sally Bowles amid the orchestrations of a ravishing Emcee. … Not only will you be entertained, but hopefully also moved and most importantly galvanized to leave the theater and do something.”Īdapted by Joe Masteroff from John Van Druten’s 1951 play “I Am a Camera,” which was itself based on Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 novella “Goodbye to Berlin,” the show is set in 1931 Berlin during the rise of Nazi Germany. “You will see beautiful costumes, hear a 17-piece orchestra, a perfectly cast version of this classic.

“This is a classic piece of musical theater,” lead actress Alexandra Silber said. Now, “Cabaret” turns Olney Theatre Center into the Kit Kat Klub until Oct. In 1972, the movie version won eight Oscars, including Best Director for Bob Fosse, Best Actress for Liza Minnelli and Best Supporting Actor for Joel Grey. In 1966, the Broadway musical won eight Tonys, including Best Musical.

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