Cabaret-- a Discussion- Page 11

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 12:34am

does anyone know where I can find the revival script? On simply scripts, I can only find the revival lyrics, and have searched EVERYWHERE... I'm doing a production in May, and want to compare and contrast... also where can I find a copy of the first revival? Cuase even though it wasn't changed much, I'd like to see the little differences.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 12:36am

This book is great, and it has the full script:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1557043833/qid=1125722148/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-5269499-2308046?v=glance&s=books

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 9:53am

I have that book. :) I like it.

Beedly dee dee dee!

I like it!

Beedly dee dee dee!

They like it!

Beedly dee dee deeee!

This two for one! ^_^

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 9:54am

Kalliope Stage in Cleveland Heights is doing the revival of Cabaret.

Guess who's going to see it? :)

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 9/15/05 at 4:37pm

I just bought the Cabaret Movie soundtrack!
And I have the revival soundtrack, the sheet music book, the revival script book, and the Cabaret movie.

Just the original soundtrack to go!

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 5:57pm

I just got the original recording of Cabaret, and I must say that their renendition of 'Tomorrow Belongs to Me' is the SCARIEST. THING. EVER!

The way they sing it it sounds like they're at church. And the way they sing 'when the world is mine' with such sweetness...

And how the Emcee joins in at the end...

*shivers*

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 9/29/05 at 4:35pm

Who's your fav Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret? I like Mary Louise Wilson. :)
Updated On: 9/29/05 at 04:35 PM

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 10/9/05 at 12:21pm

Hey! I just got back from Cabaret. It was GREAT!

I'll tell you some of my favorite parts.

On Frenchie, one of the girls: Frenchie is SO uptight! Oh, LOOSEN UP, Frenchie!

On Helga, one of the girls: She's the baby! When she's bad, I spank her! And she's very very very very very very very bad! ..... Time for her bottle!

On Lulu, one of the girls: Never turn your back on Lulu or she'll turn her back on you!

On Rosie, one of the girls: You know what's funny about Rosie? Nothing.

And I talked to one of the actors before the show! He played Bobby, a man who likes to dress like women, and he said to the audience, on me, "Looks like SOMEONE is enjoying the show!"

And I said "Yeah!"

And he said, "Maybe we can meet after the show?"

And I said "Ok."

He said, "Is that a promise?"

And I said, "I'd buy you a drink but I'm guessing you like men more than women."

And he said, "You're so perceptive!"

I am now in love.


And Hans was played as a demented clown. He flirted with me before the show. I was wearing a bowler hat and he took it off and put his hat on my head and vice versa. I fell in love with him until I found out he was scary and evil at the end.

At the end, they had a black wall and Hans painted a red swastika on it, all while laughing. Then the cymbals crashed and Nazis posters fell from the sky. I collected one, but am currently deciding whether to burn it or not. :)

All in all, a wonderful show.

(I still like Alan Cumming better.) :)

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/9/05 at 12:30pm

That sounds like a pretty creepy ending.

I always wished I had sat close enough for the ad-libs to really mess around with whoever played the Emcee. When I saw Adam, people just sort of looked at him if he talked to them or made some... gesture. He'd wait for a response that didn't come, then flounce away. If I had the guts, I really wish I could've been that close. Would've been fun to play with him a bit.

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 10/9/05 at 12:38pm

I always loved sitting up close. It just MADE the show for me. I miss this show so much. But, I have a feeling Sweeney is gonna end up being the way Cabaret was for me.

*sighs* Alan Cumming...

Updated On: 10/9/05 at 12:38 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/9/05 at 12:40pm

In my little trip down memory lane, I'm remembering this thing he'd do -- during Two Ladies, he'd come to the edge of the stage and gesture to someone "You and me. Upstairs. *insert obscene gesure* okay? Yeah?" I'd love to have just been like "you bet!"

I sat in like the third row for act two once. Fantaaastic.

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 10/9/05 at 8:07pm

And when the Emcee said "Happy to SEE YOU!" he looked at me.

And I was like "HE LOOKED AT ME!"

For the first 'Tomorrow Belongs to Me," the MC carried in this girl, she was supposed to be a puppet. Ans she sang the sweetest renedition of the song I'd ever heard.

He pulled her strings; when he gestured, she gestured.
And at the end when she went 'Tomorrow belongs..." he raised her hand in a Nazi salute and went 'TO ME!'

And he let go; she crumpled to the ground like the manipulative marionette she represented.

And he was laughing.
Brrrr....


So scary....

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 10/9/05 at 8:08pm

I made up my own comments for the girls.

Rosie: Rosie is called so because of the color of her cheeks. Which set, you ask? That's up to you!

Lulu: Oh, you like Lulu, huh? Yeah? Well too bad! Her waiting list is full! Perhaps next time.

Frenchie: Frenchie can speak German, English and French with these lips, but the other ones speak for themselves!

Texas: Yes, Texas is from America! And like her name and body states, she is hot hot hot! Did I mention that she's hot?

Fritzie: And next item up for auction, FRITZIE! Going once, going twice! Sold! She's staying with me!

Helga: Helga's the baby. I am a father and a mother to her. When she's bad, I spank her. But when she's good, I make her FEEL good!

:p

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 10/13/05 at 9:39pm

So my fav girls are Rosie, Texas, and Helga cause they don't get enough attention. :)

[Emcee4ever]

Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:01pm

So who are your favorite Kit Kat Girls?

[rose&lark]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 9:58pm

I had the good fortune to see the 1998 revival version *sigh* wonderful memories. Even though we were in the last row, it still was fabulous. That day I saw John Stamos as the Emcee and Heather Laws as Sally. I think I enjoy all the Kit Kat girls, they're all so fun!

I suppose I don't have a "most scary" moment, but when I saw the show, probably like all of you, I had a lot of uncomfortable moments. For example, one resulted from the fact that going into the theatre, I had heard the cast recording in entirety. During "If You Could See Her Through My Eyes," while everyone was laughing at the gorilla, I was bawling because I knew what was going to happen at the end. I kept thinking, "Why are you all laughing, it's horrible!" And of course, at the end, the clapping felt uneasy as well, because even though I wanted to clap for these wonderful performers, I didn't feel it right to start applauding the things I had just seen on stage. Did anyone who saw the '98 revival have that same feeling at the end?

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:00pm

Don't get jealous...

....but I just got an autograph from John Stamos (former Emcee) in the mail today. I was pratically screaming.

Just a little bit of info I'd thought you guys might want to hear.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:02pm

I did, rose&lark. And I think it was intended to be that way.

[rose&lark]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:11pm

Thanks, luvtheEmcee. I do remember clapping softly, amidst my tears. What a way to exit the theatre! And as to John Stamos, I went in not knowing what to expect, and thought that while I don't think he approached the level of Alan Cumming's Emcee (that I heard via the recording) or Joel Gray's Emcee (from the movie), I think he served the character well. And Gavrochegirl, that is neat that you got his autograph!

Updated On: 10/15/05 at 10:11 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:14pm

The first time, I clapped... by reflex. You see a show, you clap for the performers. But then what happened sort of registered, and I felt like I shouldn't really be clapping, maybe. The second time I saw it, I guess I had to think about it -- I wanted to clap for Adam (support my man!) but... it was so hard for me to watch him do and say a lot of the things the role called for.

[rose&lark]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:45pm

luvtheEmcee, I think that's one of the things that is so neat about this show, that you are muddled in whether you should clap or not. That, and for the '98 revival, the leopard print carpeting

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:47pm

I miss that carpeting! I was so upset that it was gone went I went to see Pacific Overtures. The muddling of the compulsion to clap or not to clap is part of that whole... crossover they caused you to feel. I try to describe the revival to people as an "experience" and not so much just a show. You felt like you were somewhere else, and that's not something I think will ever be able to be well replicated.

[rose&lark]

Posted: 10/15/05 at 10:55pm

I have trouble describing the "experience" as well. I start mentioning the layout of Studio 54, and the fact that they encouraged you to bring your drinks into the theatre (when will that ever happen again?) and then I am at a loss for words. They really did a great job of surrounding you with the setting, which made the things that occurred onstage even more affecting!

[jimmirae]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 12:37am

What a thread you Cabaret Folk have here! Wow! I was reading all your posts and wanted to put my 2 bits in here. I have seen this show, Done this show and of course saw the film. The great thing about a piece such as "Cabaret" is that it is like a lump of shimmering clay in a director's hands. I never felt sorry for the "Emcee" even when I played the part or saw it done in the last mounting at 54, I saw him as a victim of an evil that he helped create. I always played him sort of a sociopath, Having no concearn nor true desire for anyone or anything that wasn't pleasing him at that moment, That is the FUN of this - You can slant it, use a little leverage and give it all sorts of new twists with each production.
The main thing is you must forget Liza and Joel Grey and look at the characters more as archetypes, that is when the most inspiration comes in.
I saw it a few times on Broadway and each was so very different, I enjoyed Raul in the show very much, He was powerful and commanded the stage. I also enjoyed John Stamos and felt the heart he put into it, His Emcee seeming the exhausted victim by the time he sang "I don't care much". And NPH was full of life & great energy and was very good in the role as well. Equal but all very different so hard to say who the "Best" is or was, It's like Chocolate & Vanilla.
I did enjoy Jane Leeves (Hope I got her spelling right) as Sally since she IS British and was very sultry in the role. She wasn't a "Cute-sy" Sally, Which ruins the show right up front for me. (i.e. Jane Harrocks).
The 54 production worked so well since it took you right into the Kit Kat Club and you really could feel that. The weird thing is when 54 starts to rock from the subway and you can feel that - It just fit in with the shows feel & such.
So there is a beauty in this piece that is no 2 productions are very much alike and it is more of an experience. The other factor is being alive in this country today, I don't have to tell any of you that this is the Art/Life dance, I mean, Who knows if Iraq is only a modern day "Boot Camp" set up by twisted evils so that when only the deadliest blood thirsty army will ever be the one that is coming home, and fully "under the spell" so as to aim their guns on their own,... It could happen!
Make of this what you will - for that is the greatest pleasure of "Cabaret", It's YOUR Dream, You may dream this one any way you like, and 99&44% it will still work. Long Live "Cabaret"
Oh yes, For you younger posters, You MUST understand the economy & circumstances behind this show so look to your history books, and on the subject of "Hitler" you must remember, This was a man of great style, Otherwise we would not have a lot of elderly folks in Germany today saying "I cannot imagine what came over me!" The worst ones always come in a pretty sheeps clothing, That's how they get in,.. well, either that or fixing the votes in a National Election, That seems to be the new way.
Not to worry, keep singing and dancing, It couldn't ever happen here... Right?...

[rose&lark]

Posted: 10/16/05 at 1:06am

You've given a lot to think about, jimmirae! And you're right, you need to understand the history behind the show to understand the show itself. I've learned so much about history through musicals, and the history that Cabaret reminds me of is no exception.