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Imagine it's Hew Year's Ev, 1203, just
before Hitler coaes to power and you'ra
wandering Uirosjgh tfca streets cf Es-rlia
when you decida to take in the burlasque
show at the Kit Kat Klub.
Ecoisomfes'ly times are hard, the
costumes are brief, yet the performers
fjive you what director Rex McGraw calls a
sense cf pa dstis the joy of living ia
the Nebraska Repertory Theatre pro
duction of Cabaret at Howell Theatre.
The play's billing promises that "wanton
sex and sia beckon from the garishly the
atrical and innocently dscadsnt world of
the Cabaret: . . . 'Here life is beauti
ful .. . Come, hear the music play'."
"Berlin in the CD's was one of the exciting
cities in Europe and in some ways more
exciting than Paris," McGraw said.
Cabaret is a "contradiction in terms. All
these people (the characters) ignore the
upcoming socialists party, which later is
the Nazi party."
The play presents a "situation of
hilarity, but underneath all this frivolity
was this sense of doom or terror and that's
what we're trying to get through," the
director said. .
The genesis of Cabaret is credited to
Christopher.. Isherwood, who- wrote a
series of stories entitled The Berlin
Storks.
"Cabaret is autobiographical in a sense.
Christopher went to Germany and met'
these people. He's actually one cf the
characters," McGraw said.
Then in the 43's John Van Druten took
about three of The Berlin Stories and
wrote a play titled lama Camera. Later
John Kander and Fred Ebb composed the
broad way musical version of - Cabaret,
which is the version the repertory
company is doing. .
However, when the movie Cabaret was
made, the writers went back to all of these
sources. So the movie is the fourth version
and it leaves out "two older delightful
characters that are in the play."
McGraw said he chose to direct Cabaret
because "it's one of the few musicals I know
that has a good balance of music, actkg and
dancing scenes."
To understand more about Eerlin in the
33's, the actors have studied Germany "so
they'll have a sense of the people and the
time."
Rich Rahn is guest choreographer from
Hope College in Holland, Mich. Douglas
Anderson is musical director. Costume
design is by guest artist-in-residence
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Nalirsla ' Repertory 'Theatre cssi for ' "Cabaret": Mssice Lndissa,
Ks&teen Morrow, Fslncia Ryan, lay Perry, Eric Soreisssa, ILry Qsitsh-
Michael Cesario. Jerry Lewis is light
designer and Daniel Proett is set designer.
"It's not just me and the actors,"
McGraw said.
The actors have to work with the
choreographer and the musical director
and McGraw.
"Just getting it all together" is
McGraw's job.
There's n6 doubt that Cabaret is
classified as a musical, "but it has a lot of
punch. I don't think youll go out laughing,"
McGraw said.
Cast members include Jay Perry, Kathy
laoto courtesy Repertory Theatre
Morrow, Maurice Erickson, CU3 Radcliff,
Steve Houser, Patricia Ryan, Missy
Critchfield, Eric Sorensen, Ken Langdoa,
Paula T.ncdlan. Nsa Berlins. Debbie
Oaks, Cindy Watkias, Patti Knight,
Loreda Shuster, Patti Raun, Melissa Bacr,
Joe McNeely, Scott Eoughn, Blike
Hambrick and Steve Brown.
Cabaret begins June 24 and runs ia
repertory through Aug. 23, with Edward
Albee's Seascape, Tennessee Villissss'
The Night cf the Igvara and Thornton
Wilder's The Matchmaker.
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