What is there to say about Cabaret then......... well its Cabaret. In this 1972 Silver Screen Adaption of Harold
Prince's Stage production based on Christopher Isherwood's "Berlin Stories." The movie straddled the gap between old and new
with it's use of "Stage Numbers" and "Story Numbers". Stage numbers create the atmosphere at the Kit Kat Club
and they also give relief to some of the more disturbing incidents in the movie. The Kit Kat Club was its own microcosm, albeit
an exact opposite to that of the world around it, 1931Germany and the rise of the Nazi party.
The film is both more realistic in that only the performers well.... perform, and also more metaphorical in that every
number performed by the main characters were a social or psychological comment on the world about.
The films generally inncocent, although very different, atmosphere and also the blindness of the characters is
revealed by the only song not perfomed in the Kit Kat Club "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" sung by a young german boy evolves
into a Nazi anthem and it is revealed that the boy singing belongs to the Hitler Youth Movement. This song
is an exact opposite of all the songs performed by Sally in that she is spontanious, lives for the moment and her oddness.
