Back in 2011, we posted a review of Cabaret, the Liza-starring Oscar-winning musical about Weimar Germany’s nightclub scene. From a comment posted recently on the entry, it appears that the art form is no longer relegated to the screen, but is being revived in Berlin.
A new production, A Cabaret Story, traces the “history of cabaret from its roots in Paris in 1881 to its demise under National Socialism” according to producer Maurice Ord, who posted the comment on our site. And a quick look at the website tells us that this show is one for the time traveler in all of us.
Remember when Doc Brown punched November 12, 1955 into the DeLorean’s time display? A Cabaret Story is for those who would have punched in November 12, 1925. We’re talking Roaring Twenties, flappers, Chat Noir, chansons and cocktails with the music of the likes of Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weil and Marlene Dietrich.
Could you imagine a better place for a revue about Weimar cabaret than in Berlin itself? And better still, in the Sally Bowles Café Bar, which just happens to be in the same area where Christopher Isherwood – whose work inspired Cabaret the musical – spent his days in Weimar Germany?
We know that Berlin is quite a distance from Denver, but for anyone with European travel on the horizon, how about a quick detour to the 1920s?
