Original Creative Team

CABARET (1998 Version)

Book by Joe Masteroff
Based on the play by John Van Druten and
Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Music by John Kander Lyrics by Fred Ebb
1998 Production was co-directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall and directed by Sam Mendes

CABARET is presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK
www.tamswitmark.com

Show Synopsis:
In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920’s 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 by 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.”