CABARET at Metropolitan State University of Denver

Cabaret is a musical set in 1930s Berlin that follows the intertwined lives of an American writer, Cliff Bradshaw, and a British cabaret singer, Sally Bowles, at the seedy Kit Kat Klub, against the backdrop of the Nazi party's rise to power. The plot explores themes of decadence, moral ambiguity, and political indifference as the characters try to maintain a hedonistic lifestyle while a totalitarian regime gains momentum. A major subplot involves the boarding house landlady, Fräulein Schneider, and her courtship with a Jewish fruit seller, Herr Schultz, highlighting growing antisemitism.