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

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 7:11pm

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...

[timote316]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 7:24pm

I'll PM you with details.

Edit: I didn't do too good a job, so I'm sure Rose will appreciate more help lol Updated On: 2/9/05 at 07:24 PM

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 8:05pm

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

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 8:14pm

ok i feel dumb too, can I get the same PM? Thanks!

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 2/9/05 at 8:15pm

Would you like me to forward it to you?

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:00am

me too please

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:03am

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

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:05am

Thank you, Emcee.

And jonart, EverythingIsRENT, check your PMs!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:08am

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.

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

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:09am

This reminds me:

Emcee, Have you gotten around to watching the flim version of Cabaret?

Remember, you said you'd get around to it. Last summer.

Updated On: 2/10/05 at 12:09 AM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:10am

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.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:12am

Mmmmmm-Hmmmmmm.
Excuses, excuses.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:15am

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.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:31am

Thanks again, Emcee! Man, reading all these synapses makes me wish like hell that I could have seen it.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:33am

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

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:39am

well, if you ever go home with your roommate, I'll let you watch it...

Oh, I think that the English version of the show had a slightly different ending...I have the video (which LEAGALLY aired on TV) at home...somewhere...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:41am

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

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:42am

I was talking about Mendes version, that he brought here...I feel like it was different...

Also, his costume at the end looked like something out of the village costume shop...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:44am

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.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:46am

Well, obviously...

But I mean it looked like something a 12 yo would wear...it was striped and pathetic...

(And the woman who played Sally got more laughs than Alan - that's so unAmerican...)

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:49am

I've heard really good things about her.

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

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 12:52am

No, n/m...pathetic in a "at least put SOME effort into the costume."

I think it was white, with black stripes...it looked rather clean for a prisnor's outfit...get my drift?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 1:02am

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

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 1:04am

Yes, Sally Bowles was real...I read about her in an interview with Kander and Ebb and they even mentioned her real name though I cannot remember it.

Has anyone ever read the book "After the Cabaret." It's a novel that continues the story of Christopher Isherwoods stories. It's fiction, of course, but it's so bad it's absolutely hysterical. It's basically Sally's story after CLiff leaves.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/10/05 at 1:08am

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

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