Daytona Playhouse
Jun 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 1974 at 8:30 PM
Jun 15, 1974 at 7:30 PM
In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken with English singer Sally Bowles. Meanwhile, Fräulein Schneider, proprietor of Cliff and Sally’s boarding house, tentatively begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish. Musical numbers include “Willkommen,” “Cabaret,” “Don't Tell Mama” and “Two Ladies.” This is the original 1966 musical.
June 15, 1974, production offered as part of Florida Theater Conference hosted by the Playhouse.
Book by Joe Masteroff. Music by John Kander. Lyrics by Fred Ebb. Based on the 1951 play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten and the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood from his time living in Berlin from 1929 to 1933. Premiered on Broadway on November 20, 1966 at the Broadhurst Theatre. Opened in the West End at the Palace Theatre on February 28, 1968. Revived in the West End in 1986 at the Strand Theatre. The show was revised for Broadway, first in 1987, opening at the Imperial Theatre, and again in 1998 for a production at Studio 54.
