“Welcome” and “Leave your troubles at the door” were just the words that I wanted to hear on the night before war. Upon arriving at Studio 54 I was very excited because I have longed to see the inside of the theatre that was one of the best nightclubs in the seventies. Having seen the movie and a high school version of Cabaret I was pretty aware of the plot but was still very excited to see how the revival would differ from the original.
The Studio 54 theatre I believe is as important a part of the play as the singing. The theatre allows for the audience to feel as though they are truly a part of the nightclub scene. The play opened up with the famous "Willkommen" performed by Neil Patrick Harris which allows the audience to begin to understand how the play will work and what is expected of
The play Cabaret is a fantastic achievement in musical history because its uses humor to addresses many social issues that are still present in our society today including racial bias, anti-Semitism , homophobia. The end scene of the play is a warning from the director of the play to never again let the powers of hate rise to power and destroy the happiness in the world because Life is a cabaret. I cannot help but notice that the symbolic meaning of cabaret is also the meaning of Breck’s “The resistible rise of Arturo Ui”. Both plays warn that we as a race must stop the rise of hate before it takes over again.
them the audience. The plot continues as we are introduced to the main character of cliff that is an American looking for his nitch in the world. Cliff is persuaded to stay in a very
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