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“Playwright’s Note: There is no curtain. As the audience enters the theatre, the stage is bare and dark. Street lamps on both sides of the stage recede dimly into the distance. A large mirror hanging center stage reflects the auditorium, thus allowing the audience to see itself.�

ACT ONE

A sign is illuminated in the darkness: “Cabaret,� it reads. A spotlight comes up on the Kit Kat Klub’s Master of Ceremonies, a “bizarre little figure - much lipstick, much rouge, patent-leather hair parted in the middle,� The Emcee. He greets the audience and welcomes them to the strange world of the Cabaret, where you can forget about all of your troubles, where “life is beautiful� and “the girls are beautiful.� As the Cabaret Girls are introduced one by one, they begin to join the Emcee in welcoming the audience to the Cabaret, dancing seductively whilst singing the refrain of �Willkommen�.

We are now in a compartment of a European railway train en route to Berlin from Paris. Clifford