![]() The Kit Kat Klub numbers in the first half of the performance are wonderfully risque, performed with a minimum of props. Led with a solo by Bridget Beirne as FräuleinKost, a German prostitute living in Fräulein Schneider’s boarding house, the song transforms from a light patriotic song to a darker marching song, revealing just how widespread Nazi sentiment has become, a chilling turn after mostly upbeat musical numbers in the first half. ![]() “Tomorrow Belongs to Me (Reprise),” the final number of the first act, reveals the dark underpinnings of the play’s setting, and sent literal shivers up my spine. The play presents a striking contrast between its two acts – growing darker as the reality of the approaching disaster looms overhead. In a surprisingly tender contrast to the often-racy numbers featuring the beautiful boys and girls of the Kit Kat Klub, a subplot of the play follows the romance of Bradshaw’s boarding house landlady, Fräulein Schneider, and her smitten suitor, Herr Schultz, a Jewish fruit-seller. Impoverished American author Cliff Bradshaw, played by Brandon Grimes, comes to Berlin seeking inspiration for his new novel, and meets Sally Bowles, an English singer and once the crown jewel of the Kit Kat Klub, now out of work. But just outside its doors, 1930s Berlin is teetering on the edge of the rise of the Nazi Party. “Cabaret” centers around the Kit Kat Klub, a hedonistic cabaret club still reveling in the sunset of the Jazz Age, where you might get a call at your table from an interested girl – or boy (after all, “This is Berlin,” says Bobby, one of the Kit Kat Boys) – from the stage. Along with choreographer Ilyse Robbins and music director Jenny Kim-Godfrey, the Kit Kat Klub and Fräulein Schneider’s boarding house and its colorful cast of characters are brought to vivid reality on the Players’ stage. With a minimalistic backdrop and props, the majority of the play is carried by the costuming, superb lighting effects and a stellar cast and live band, who play in full sight of the audience above the stage.ĭirector Tom Frey selected the 1998 version of the play, the more-often-produced version of the story than its original 1966 version. ![]() “Cabaret” is the first play staged indoors on the Peterborough Players barn stage since 2019, opening Thursday, June 23, at 7:30 p.m, and it’s a bombastic return. It is with these words the audience is welcomed into the world of “Cabaret”– and back to the Peterborough Players theater.
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