Cabaret-- a Discussion — Page 11

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

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

Guess who's going to see it? :)

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*

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.) :)

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...

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

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....

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

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?

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

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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.

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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.

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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?...

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