MacLeod, and the sweetheart of a greengrocer Herr Schultz, Kevin Ligon, who wants to make Fraulein Schneider his wife. She is busy keeping track of her tenants, such as the overly friendly to sailors Fraulein Kost, a convincing Terra C. On the train into town, Cliff meets the dangerously single-minded Ernst Ludwig, a focused-for-the cause Tim Fuchs, who helps Cliff secure a room at the boarding house of Fraulein Schneider, a hard-working and sincere Jennifer Smith. She dangles men like so much jewelry, using them to accommodate her needs, such as the club owner Max and the newcomer to Berlin, the American writer Cliff Bradshaw, played by the naive but trusting Bruce Landry. Headlining the show is the sparkling singer from Mayfair, England, Miss Sally Bowles, played by a stars-in-her-eyes Aline Mayagoitia, who is busy breezing through life seemingly without a care. The welcome mat is securely laid out by the seductive and most accommodating Emcee Jelani Remy, who urges you to leave all your troubles outside and have a good time, especially with his bevy of Kit Kat Girls to entertain you. The frantic and frenetic times created so masterfully by Joe Masteroff’s book, John Kander’s music and Fred Ebb’s lyrics in “Cabaret,” based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood, will be on splendid display, thanks to the glittering scenic design by Michael Schweikardt, complete with a dizzying array of disco balls, the spot-on choreography of Lainie Sakakura and glamour personified in Lex Liang’s costumes. The same could be argued for the citizens of Berlin when they kept themselves busy partying and dancing and drinking, faster and faster, so they were oblivious to the dangers swirling around them outside the nightclub doors.
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