Feature: CABARET at Etobicoke School Of The Arts

Leave Your Troubles Outside, and come to Cabaret at Etobicoke School Of The Arts!

So, life is Disappointing! Forget it! The 1967 Tony Award winning Best Musical, amung other awards, Cabaret is one of Broadway's most classic and iconic shows, and it's coming to the stage at Etobicoke School Of The Arts. Featuring 4 stellar casts of grade 11 and 12 Musical Theatre students, and iconic songs by John Kander and Fred Ebbsuch as "Wilkolmen", "Maybe This Time", "Mein Herr" and "Cabaret" to name a few, this is not a show to miss!

Based off of the book surrounding the true experiences of writer Christopher Isherwood titled "The Berlin Stories", Cabaret is set in the Seady Kit Kat Klub in Berlin,Germany in the early 1930's. It is there we meet the spectacular "larger than life" Master of Ceremonies, the Kit Kat Klub's talented dancers, and the club's perfectly marvalous headlner, Saly Bowls. Sally strikes up a relationship with Cliff Bradshaw, and american novelist coming to Berlin to solve his chronic writer's block. The show also follos the lives of Ernst Ludwig, Cliff's first friend in Berlin who is more than meets the eye, Fraulein Schneider, who runs the boarding home Cliff has taken residence in, Herr Schultz, who lives in the house and forms a deep connection with Fraulein Schneider, and Fraulien Kost, the scandalous resident who lives down the hall.

This show is one of the best, and most moving concept musicals to ever come to the Broadway stage. It isn't all about the glitz and the glamour, but about the harsh reality the glitz and glamour try and cover up. And eventually, the link between them. It is a true political statement told through on of th best ways to state important ideas that coul truley make a difference. This is why this show is such a relevent and thought provoking piece to see now in our current political climate, and what's better than having it performed by the generation of tomorrow.

The entire creative team and student-lead tech team are working phenominally hard to help ensure the true integrity and visions of this show are not just honoured, but honoured, and fresh. They all are devoting every unce of creative energy into making this a performance worth seeing without a shaddow of a doubt.

The show runs February 8th, 9th and 10th at 7pm and February 10th at 2pm. Tickets are available at www.esainfo.ca. Please come support live theare and the incredible students working hard to make this show utterly and completely outstanding. So come here the music play and come to see Cabaret old chum!

-Brynn Bonne, Student Blogger