I'm so embarrassed to ask this but...

I have never seen "Cabaret," and whenever I listen to the Broadway revival, I get confused at the end. How exactly does the second act play out? Why do the Emcee and Sally sound so exhausted at the end? And what exactly happens at the very end of the show, when Cliff leaves?
PS: If Herr Schultz ends up dying, I'll be crushed...

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I got your PM, and you did fine! Once again, thanks!

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Would you like me to forward it to you?

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Hey darlings. Give me a few minutes and I'll post something for y'all.

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SPOILERS, for others who didn't see the show and don't want to know the end.

Click the link below, and scroll down to the very long post. It's a synopsis someone asked me to write a while ago.
http://adampascal.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

That said, the final scene of Cabaret was really ambiguous. Cliff leaves Sally and goes to Paris, but she's so exhausted at the end in literal terms because of the abortion she's just had. I always saw the Emcee in the '98 revival as a representation of everything that Hitler and the Third Reich would destroy, rather than a representation of Hitler himself. In the second act, his makeup was darkened, and as the act progressed, it all looked like it was dripping down his face. That was basically the physical manifestation of what was going on, and you just saw his character deteriorate and go farther and farther downhill.

The final scene is pretty ambiguous, but you saw all of the characters up on the catwalk before the set revealed a concentration camp. I'm pretty sure that's to say that they did die, but I'm not 100% sure. I know that Sally Bowles was in fact real, and that she did die in a concentration camp.

ETA - Feel free to PM me if you have any questions about that synopsis. I haven't re-read it in a while.

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Updated On: 2/10/05 at 12:08 AM

Nooooo! The Blockbuster in my town has it, but never actually has it. I can't find anyone who has it for me to borrow, and the closest Blockbuster to my school is in a really scary area. *hides*
I think I'm just going to buy it when I can scrounge up some extra cash, or ask my parents for it for my birthday.

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I promise! My birthday is really soon, if that's what it comes to. Well, okay, not really soon, but I like to tell myself that. It's in like two months.

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I think I wrote that when I was still undergoing my self-imposed healing process. Hence the obscene amounts of details.

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Most versions of the show have had different endings, BSo.

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Oh, hm. I think it was the same in London, but I'd have to check.

And it's not really supposed to be a good-lookin' costume.

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I've heard really good things about her.

And yes. Pathetic. That's how it was supposed to look!

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Well, nobody put effort into what people actually wore in the situation. I thought it was fine...

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N/m, Em, n/m....

Foa - I am still looking for Berlin Stories...I know it's in my house...somewhere...