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Cabaret ending..
#25re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 5/1/05 at 1:37pm
Tirso, I'm trying to find (and quote) where I read that about Sally. It was pretty directly stated... I just can't find it. Give me a few minutes. 
ETA - I thought it was in the Cabaret book, but it's not. I realized that after I saw the show, I did a LOT of reading about it, and this was all somewhere in the "research" I did. I'll keep looking, but I can't make any promises.
#26re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 5/1/05 at 1:53pmThe revival was not a whole lot darker than the original. It's a dark show - that's what it is.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
cabarethed
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#27re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 5/1/05 at 3:26pm
The ending that the creator of the thread saw is almost identical to how it was done in London in 1993.
I love the ending no matter what incarnation, but I still get chilled when I think of the recent Broadway one.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#28re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 5/1/05 at 6:10pmThe movie's a slightly different creature than the show, but it's amazing in its own right.
#29re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 5/1/05 at 6:11pmOne of my favorite moments in film is Liza in the Cabaret film screaming as the train rumbles above her.
#30re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 5/1/05 at 7:25pm
I never actually got to see the Revival. But my university did a production of Cabaret a couple years ago, and it remains one of the very best performances I've ever seen.
From what I've read in this thread, the end that I saw was much different. After Cliff leaves, Sally sang a slow, sad version of "Mein Herr" which then picked up into "Cabaret." At the very end, when the Emcee does the reprise of "Wilkommen," he started to rearrange these boxes (which had been moved around serving as a stage throughout the whole show). You couldn't really tell what he was doing until he was done. He had moved the boxes into a shape of a Swastika and when the music goes all flat and drumrolls, he stood in the middle of it, and gave a Nazi salute, and as the cymbals crash, a Nazi flag opened up.
It was very very powerful. My stomach still churns when I think about it. Though, I would really have liked to have seen the opposite...the concentration camp. I just love this show no matter what. It's so very powerful.
I'm actually in the library right now, and I'm supposed to be writing a film paper on the movie version.
#31re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 5/1/05 at 7:28pm
In the version I saw, It ended with Emcee wearing a striped uniform. The shadow of a noose goes over him, and the lights black out.
It was very powerful.
jera
"It's not a problem, it's just a challenge, it's a challenge, to resist temptation."
#32re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 5/1/05 at 7:52pm
I have a question about the endings where the Emcee is wearing a concentration camp prisoner's uniform. Did he have a yellow star and/or a pink triangle? And was it meant to be a part of the performance at the Kit Kat Klub or was it meant to be an indication of the future for the characters?
#33re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 5/1/05 at 7:57pm
In the revival, he had both - .
I'm not sure I understand the second part of your question, but I don't think there would be a performance in the club about a Nazi concentration camp. It was an indication of what was going to happen.
#34re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 5/1/05 at 7:59pm
He had both. Okay. That gives "If You Could See Her" an interesting spin then, doesn't it?
Sorry. I just meant that everytime the Emcee appears (at least in the production that I saw) it was at the Kit Kat Klub. So that is why I was wondering if it was him commenting on what was happening in the country.
#35re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:06pm
That makes the entire thing about forty times as painful - he's Jewish.
Yes, I think it was basically his comment on what would happen. He sort of embodies it all... always watching, always part of something, but never really having any identity.
#36re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 5/1/05 at 8:20pm
Yeah. You wonder if he was doing that to please the klub's audience something like that.
Ugh. Now I need to see this show again. I'm stuck in the midwest, so I'm lucky I got to see any production at all.
Emcee4ever
Leading Actor Joined: 7/27/05
#37re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:07pm
In the one I saw, the Emcee was a woman.
After Cliff left, we heard the sound of dogs barking. The Kit Kat Girls ran offstage frantically.
The Emcee stayed behind to wish us goodbye, but as she did, the stage filled up with smoke. She threw off her coat to reveal the yellow star and collapsed.
This is my first post. :)
#38re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:14pm
Did you like it with a female Emcee? I can't even picture that!
And a big welcome to you! Or, as it has come to go...
Willkommen.
Bienvenue.
Welcome!
I know you'll like that. 
Emcee4ever
Leading Actor Joined: 7/27/05
#39re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:17pm
Thanks. ^_^
The Emcee in that production was very masculine as opposed to an effeminate man, so it worked out. :)
#40re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:19pm
Same difference I suppose, then.
I saw some photos of a female Emcee once. She was basically dressed as Sally was dress for "Mein Herr" in the revival, rather than in suspenders and drag. I was unsettled. heh.
Emcee4ever
Leading Actor Joined: 7/27/05
#42re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:23pmWhat do you mean - was what in the kick line?
#43re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:25pmI wish I had seen the revival of Cabaret. I saw most of the film version, but I had family over and they were complaining about not being able to watch, as they put it, a good movie. So I was outnumbered and had to turn it off. I'm still mad about that.
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
Emcee4ever
Leading Actor Joined: 7/27/05
#44re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:26pm
Was the picture of the Emcee when she was in the kick line?
Cause Joel and Alan (and Raul and Matt :) ) were in drag for that, but since the Emcee was female she didn't need to be. (Unless she and the girls were drssed like men :) )
#45re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:38pmOh, I have no idea. It was a picture of a female Emcee; I don't even remember what production it was, but I think it was just her alone. But yeah - in the revival, during the kickline following the Entr'Acte, he was dressed like one of the Kit Kat Girls.
Emcee4ever
Leading Actor Joined: 7/27/05
#46re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:40pm
And they all wore wigs :)
Was the musical number for the kick line during the revival the 'Tiller Girls' number from the movie?
#47re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:42pm
Yeah, and the whole "it's meee!" bit.
Beats me - I've never seen the movie. I know, sin.
Emcee4ever
Leading Actor Joined: 7/27/05
#48re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:44pm
Lol. :)
It's OK if you haven't seen it--the only thing it has in common with the play is the green nail polish. ^_^
#49re: Cabaret ending..
Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:46pm
Actually, the original Cabaret did not have the nail polish.
Mein Herr was written for the movie, as well as The Money Song (subtitled "Sitting Pretty" for the original show - and a completely different song).
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