Past Shows - Cabaret
July 2011 - Cabaret
Venue - The Masque, Barton Seagrave
Willkommen
(Welcome) to the Cabaret sings the Emcee of the Kit Kat Club through
painted lips, as the people of the Berlin of 1929 join him.
The Kit Kat Klub is a cross section of Berlin nightlife thronged with overweight, middle class Germans, prostitutes, homosexuals and the flotsam and jetsam of this doomed city as the Nazis are rising to power.
Cabaret focuses on the nightlife at this decadent, yet seedy nightclub and revolves around a young English cabaret performer Sally Bowles who, as becomes apparent, has not been employed for her voice, and her relationship with a young American writer Cliff Bradshaw, who is frantically searching for inspiration for his second novel.
As the story unfolds, overseeing it all is the Emcee of the Kit Kat Klub serving as a constant reminder of the tenuous and threatening state of late Weimar Germany throughout the show.
Despite its dark undertones, this is a highly entertaining show with great musical numbers which include:
Willkommen, Meeskite, Why Should I Wake Up?, Perfectly Marvelous, Sitting Pretty, Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Cabaret, Don't Tell Mama, It Couldn't Please Me More and Two Ladies.
Cabaret - The Cast
Director: Mark Walker Choreographer: Donna Hewett
Musical Director: Rob Wicks
| Character | Played By |
| Emcee | Alan Galway |
| Kit Kat Girls: | |
| Fritzie | Jane Walker |
| Rosie | Suzanne Lewis |
| Texas | Susan Monkton |
| Frenchie | Jenny Tymon |
| Lulu | Stacey Hewett |
| Maria | Tracey Galway |
| Sally Bowles | Leisa Cooke |
| Cliff Bradshaw | Martin Grover |
| Frauline Schneider | Pam Dee |
| Herr Schultz | Paul Whiteman |
| Frauline Kost | Julie Paris |
| Ernst Ludwig | Roy Taylor |
| Max | Mark Walker |
| Lead Waiter | Ian Stark |
| Bobby & Victoria | Claire Patrick & Kay Patterson |
| Officer | Seb Goss |
| Telephone Girl | Claire Edwards |
| Two Ladies | Jane Walker & Susan Monkton |
| Gorilla | Tracey Galway |
| Company: | Jane Walker Suzanne Lewis Jenny Tymon Stacey Hewett Susan Monkton Tracey Galway Ian Stark Seb Goss Rory Tymon Mark Walker Claire Edwards Claire Patrick Kay Patterson Lydia Le Fer Greg Ottley Lester Cooke |
