Joe Masteroff –– music: John Kander –– lyrics: Fred Ebb –– based on John van Druten's play "I am a Camera" and on a book written by Christopher Isherwood –– German version by Robert Gilbert –– short version for orchestra by Chris Walker –– Stage direction and choreography by Răzvan Mazilu
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In 1930s Berlin, when Nazism came to power, Sally Bowles, a young singer and dancer in a night club called Kit Kat, falls in love with Cliff Bradshaw, an American whose dream was to become a novelist. At the same time, though of old age, Ms Schneider and Mr Schultz are living their own delicate love story, which cannot materialize into marriage because he is Jewish. Between humour and resignation, ludic and decadent, fulfilled dreams and shattered ones, the fate of the characters in the musical "Cabaret" are marked by a political and social context whose influence is just at …
