"Futuristic 'Cabaret' "

This sounds like a horrible idea.

First of all, I am fed up with everyone comparing every year since 9/11 to be the new uprising of the Nazi. We live in one of the most coddled, comfortable civilizations in world history. There is nothing in our world as horrible as the rise of the Nazis and World War II. Just because we've had a couple crappy presidents, it is selfish and foolish to compare today's petty complaints to the absolute horror that millions of innocent people experienced. I saw a production of Cabaret at the Arden in Philadelphia and the Emcee during the intermission came out and talked about Trump's stance on transgenders in the military. I admired the sentiment, but it completely removed us from the world they spent so long creating in act I.

Second, I'm fed up with amateurs trying to improve upon a perfect piece of art that works. We may as well paint earbuds on the Mona Lisa. Or add hashtags to the Sistine Chapel.

The arrogance of these artists really churns my stomach.

Nearly 3k dead in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and hundreds of thousands of immigrants held in detention camps and separated from their families.

60 to 80 million killed in a global conflict that changed the face of the 20th century until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Nobody will ever convince me that we are living in the same sort of story as the people who died before us 70 something years ago. It is arrogant to believe otherwise.

Cabaret is a cautionary tale concerning true events, not some dystopian fantasy like the Handmaid's Tale.

If you can't work with the materials given to you to get your point across, create your OWN work. Don't rape someone else's.

fashionguru_23 said: "I just don't understand how you take a story, and change the time period, and its the same show."

IMO, when something like this is done, it devalues the both the show and the audience. When an audience can view any artistic work, in its original form, and still find and make connections to its current relevance, that demonstrates that the work has the quality of being 'timeless'.

To bring the show into "the future" devalues it because it implies that in order to retain its relevance, its original setting needs to be altered or erased. I don't believe that to be true for Cabaret.

To do so seems to me to demonstrate a lack of faith in an audience that they can't make the connections on their own; that "spelling it out" for them would show them something they would have missed had the setting not been changed.

Changing the setting could end up being an interesting experiment, but for my tastes, and without the benefit of seeing the final production, I feel like it would be more of an insult to the integrity of the original work and the audience, rather than demonstrating a revelation of something new, 'more', or interesting.

The comparisons between America in 2018 and 1930's Germany have been made, and are obvious, and there is no way to do this without changing the script. What are they going to do, have the Germans wear red hats instead of fedoras?

Also, it is now pretty common for productions of Cabaret to have POC as the Emcee or Kit Kat Klub girls or boys. That's nothing new. And in this concept, the Germans would still have to be white. And how is hip-hop choreography going to work with the score? Are they going to rap "Money Makes the World Go Round?"

They are a big university with lots of money. How about they commission a new musical about the current American political turmoil instead?

Sounds like this professor is really gunning for tenure or something.

And how is hip-hop choreography going to work with the score? Are they going to rap "Money Makes the World Go Round?"

Wait...what??? I missed that part.

jesus christ you people

I don’t think anyone is saying Trump is Hitler but there has to a recognition that ideologies begin somewhere.

Does Cabaret as it is not succeed in making this point?

Are they going to rap "Money Makes the World Go Round?"

This song was written for and only used in the 1972 film adaptation. It was not part of the original 1966 Broadway production nor ever included in any of the stage revisions.

That's...not correct. Money Makes the World Go Round was definitely in the Roundabout revival. The Money Song (from 1966) most assuredly was not.

BrodyFosse123 said: "Are they going to rap "Money Makes the World Go Round?"

This song was written for and only used in the 1972 film adaptation. It was not part of the original 1966 Broadway production nor ever included in any of the stage revisions."



Huh?? It was used in the 1987 revival, and also n the 1998 and 2014 revivals.

#factsmatter