Cabaret ending..- Page 2

[luvtheEmcee]

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.

Updated On: 5/1/05 at 01:37 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 5/1/05 at 1:53pm

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

[cabarethed]

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]

Posted: 5/1/05 at 6:10pm

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

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 5/1/05 at 6:11pm

One of my favorite moments in film is Liza in the Cabaret film screaming as the train rumbles above her.

[kaycee]

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.

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

[Jera]

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

[kaycee]

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?

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

[luvtheEmcee]

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.

[kaycee]

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.

[luvtheEmcee]

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.

[kaycee]

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]

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. :)

[luvtheEmcee]

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]

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. :)

[luvtheEmcee]

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]

Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:21pm

Was that in the kick line?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:23pm

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

[KelRel]

Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:25pm

I 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.

[Emcee4ever]

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 :) )

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/27/05 at 2:38pm

Oh, 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]

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?

[luvtheEmcee]

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]

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. ^_^

[Thenardier]

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).