Set in late 1920s Berlin, ‘Cabaret’ dazzles with amazing musical numbers but asks such difficult questions as ‘How did we let the Holocaust happen?’
Hedonistic nightlife thrives at the Kit Kat Club in Center Repertory Company’s “Cabaret,” performing May 26 – June 23 at Lesher Center for the Arts. Walnut Creek may not seem like the obvious place to find a bold and provocative artistic statement about the current state of America and what’s at stake in the 2024 presidential election.
Performers dazzle onstage at the Kit Kat Club in Center Repertory Company’s “Cabaret,” performing May 26 – June 23 at Lesher Center for the Arts. Like many notable productions of the musical since its 1966 Broadway debut, Center Rep’s “Cabaret” delivers catchy, clever songs and dazzling dance numbers — “Willkommen,” “Mein Herr” and the title song, “Cabaret.” But Center Rep’s “Cabaret” also doesn’t “hold anything back,” Morrow said.
This warning may come most starkly in that Trojan Horse way, with a rousing kick-line dance number at the beginning of Act II. The number is led by the Emcee, the metaphorical character who lures audiences into the Kit Kat Klub’s bewitching debauchery while alerting them to the looming catastrophe. When the darkly patriotic anthem, “Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” begins to play, the dancers’ kicks pick up a martial tempo, and they end the number goose-stepping and offering “Heil Hitler” salutes.
Coming out of the “trauma” of the COVID-19 pandemic, Potter said, “We were still in the throes of grappling with, who are we as a society, where are we going?” Potter, an assistant professor of performance at the University of Kansas, expressed alarm at the “attacks on LGBTQ+ communities” in the United States. Closer to Walnut Creek, he was horrified by antisemitic tirades taking place at City Council meetings.
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