Cabaret
Is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit, inspiring and spawned numerous subsequent productions in London and New York, as well as a 1972 film by the same is based on John Van Druten's 1951 play I Am a Camera, which was adapted from the short novel Goodbye to Berlin (1939) by Christopher Isherwood. Set in 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power, it is based in nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub, and revolves around the 19-year-old English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with the young American writer Cliff Bradshaw.A sub-plot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a Jewish fruit vendor. Overseeing the action is the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub. The club serves as a metaphor for the threatening state of late Weimar Germany.
Cast
The Emcee – Kurt Hummel
Sally Bowles – Santana Lopez
Clifford "Cliff" Bradshaw – Sebastian Smythe
Fräulein Schneider – Shelby Corcoran
Herr Schultz – Dustin Goolsby
Ernst Ludwig – Ryder Lynn
Fräulein Kost – April Rhodes
Rosie, LuLu, Frenchie, Texas, Fritzie, and Helga – Brittany Pierce, Santana Lopez, Sugar Motta, Marley Rose, Kitty Wilde, and Lauren Zizes
Bobby, Victor, Hans, and Herman – Elliott "Starchild" Gilbert, Adam Crawford, Cooper Anderson and Carl Howell
Sailors #1 and #2 – Brody Weston and Jesse St. James
Guard – Dave Karofsky
Max – Finn Hudson