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Cabaret (musical)
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<p><i>Cabaret</i> is an American <a href="/facts/Musical_theater/KQ2Y35SQ">musical</a> with music by <a href="/facts/John_Kander/n4zexqnt">John Kander</a>, lyrics by <a href="/facts/Fred_Ebb/7hGJc5pn">Fred Ebb</a>, and a book by <a href="/facts/Joe_Masteroff/I89TPukD">Joe Masteroff</a>. It is based on the 1951 play <i><a href="/facts/I_Am_a_Camera/S0fefuQX">I Am a Camera</a></i> by <a href="/facts/John_Van_Druten/sghTXgUC">John Van Druten</a>, which in turn was based on the 1939 novel <i><a href="/facts/Goodbye_to_Berlin/0tXpwsEa">Goodbye to Berlin</a></i> by <a href="/facts/Christopher_Isherwood/Rk9CEhpn">Christopher Isherwood</a>. </p><p>Set in 1929–1930 <a href="/facts/Berlin/pMTIRNXK">Berlin</a> during the twilight of the <a href="/facts/Jazz_Age/IXLjUxQ7">Jazz Age</a> as the <a href="/facts/Nazi_Party/qQCramHd">Nazis</a> rise to power, the musical focuses on the hedonistic nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around American writer Clifford Bradshaw's relations with English <a href="/facts/Cabaret/n0fKcALB">cabaret</a> performer <a href="/facts/Sally_Bowles/pV0Ftq1v">Sally Bowles</a>. A subplot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Schultz, a <a href="/facts/Anti-Jewish_legislation_in_prewar_Nazi_Germany/7gl9tjcG">Jewish</a> fruit vendor. Overseeing the action is the <a href="/facts/Master_of_Ceremonies/YzMUB0nX">Master of Ceremonies</a> at the Kit Kat Klub, and the club itself serves as a metaphor for ominous political developments in late <a href="/facts/Weimar_Germany/LYYS66ad">Weimar Germany</a>. </p><p>The original <a href="/facts/Broadway_theatre/6USkK8x9">Broadway</a> production opened on November 20, 1966, at the <a href="/facts/Broadhurst_Theatre/U7Ru9BKG">Broadhurst Theatre</a> in New York City and became a box office hit that ran for 1,166 performances. The production won eight <a href="/facts/Tony_Award/Md77rBE0">Tony Awards</a> and inspired numerous subsequent productions around the world as well as the <a href="/facts/Cabaret_(1972_film)/TqawqBrB">1972 film of the same name</a>. </p>