CABARET at Franklin Performing Arts Company

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 Emcees bawdy songs as wry commentary, CABARET explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlins natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken by English singer Sally Bowles. Meanwhile, Frulein Schneider, proprietor of Cliff and Sallys boarding house, tentatively begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish. Musical numbers include Willkommen, Cabaret, Dont Tell Mama and Two Ladies.

Authors

• Christopher Isherwood
• Fred Ebb
• Joe Masteroff
• John Kander
• John Van Druten

Tony Awards and Nominations for CABARET