Cabaret ending.. — Page 2

The revival was not a whole lot darker than the original. It's a dark show - that's what it is.

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The movie's a slightly different creature than the show, but it's amazing in its own right.

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.

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Updated On: 5/1/05 at 07:25 PM

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?

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Updated On: 5/1/05 at 07:52 PM

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What do you mean - was what in the kick line?

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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 :) )

And they all wore wigs :)

Was the musical number for the kick line during the revival the 'Tiller Girls' number from the movie?

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. ^_^