Event Details - Cabaret

Written by, John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff

Directed by John Michael Diresta

Performances: April 12-14 and 18-20 at 8pm (Sunday Matinees at 2pm)

MainStage Theater, Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater on the Skidmore College Campus

Synopsis:

Berlin. New Year’s Eve. 1928. The air is full of sex, champagne, drugs, and jazz as aspiring American novelist Clifford Bradshaw’s train pulls into town. As midnight approaches, Cliff moves into a marvelous, decrepit boarding house and makes new friends unlike any he’s ever met before. Before he can even unpack, they whisk him away to the Kit Kat Klub, where girls dance for him – and boys dance for him! – and the seductive, mercurial Sally Bowles seduces him into a life of joyful sexual freedom. Within days, Cliff abandons all pretenses of naiveté and starts raking in money on the black market, but he soon learns that no windfall comes without a price. As Germany grows politically stratified, the Nazis consolidate power, and violence erupts on the streets, Cliff and Sally must decide how much they can bear to witness. A searing critique of the silent bystander, Cabaret portrays the dangers of a hyper-polarized society in a fast-changing world.                                                                                                                 Tickets: $12 general admission and $8 for students and senior citizens.  SEATING IS LIMITED. To get tickets, visit our website at theater.skidmore.edu, email our Box Office at boxoffice@skidmore.edu,