Cabaret

Cabaret
July 30 – August 2, August 6-9 at 7:30pm
August 2, 9-10 at 2pm

3501 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34239 (Please park and enter the mall by Connor’s Steak & Seafood)
Berlin, in the midst of a post-World War I economic depression, is transitioning from a center of underground, avant-garde cultural epicenter to the beginnings of Hitler’s totalitarian regime and the rise of the Nazi Party. Into this world enters Clifford Bradshaw, a struggling American writer looking for inspiration for his next novel. On his first night in Berlin, Cliff wanders into the Kit Kat Klub, a seedy nightclub overseen by the strange, omniscient and gender-bending Master of Ceremonies, “the Emcee.” Here, Cliff meets Sally Bowles, a vivacious cabaret performer, and an utterly lost soul. Sally and Cliff begin a relationship, which blossoms unexpectedly into a dream-like romance. As time passes, however, the situation in Berlin changes from exciting and vital to ominous and violent. With a score featuring songs that have become classics of the American Musical Theater, Cabaret is a fierce, dark musical that pushes the boundaries of the form and literally holds “the mirror up to nature.”