Review of CabaretRaleigh Little Theatre Review RLT's “Cabaret” is a new, darker look at pre-World War II Berlin The economy is broken. The political world is in an uproar. The current party in power is about to be overrun by one that is completely different. Times are tough, and those people working from paycheck to paycheck are finding it more and more difficult to live, let alone eat. And whether the people like it or not, things are going to get much worse than they are already. Sound familiar? It should. But these circumstances, while reflecting the current political and financial world in the modern-day U.S., also describe the scary and crumbling situation in pre-World War Two Germany, in the days just prior to the rise of the Nazi party. This is the setting that, 58 years ago, was the subject of the play I Am A Camera by John Van Druten, based on The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood. We know it better as its metamorphosis, Cabaret. The musical adaptation examines the lives of those people who were soon to be steamrolled by the Nazi party in the late 1930s. But the original 1966 Broadway smash script, as well as the widely acclaimed movie of 1972, saw a metamorphosis of its own during the 1990's, and that new, darker reality of back-alley Berlin is the subject of the current production of Cabaret onstage at Raleigh Little Theatre. To read the rest of this Classical Voice of North Carolina review, please go to http://cvnc.org/reviews/2009/062009/Cabaret.html. Raleigh Little Theatre presents Cabaret Thursday-Saturday, June 11-13, 18-20, and 25-27, at 8 p.m.; Sunday, June 14, 21, and 28, at 3 p.m. in its Cantey V. Sutton Main Stage Theatre. $18 ($15 students are up to and including college and seniors 62+), except special $10 onstage seating (tickets sold via the box office only). 919/821-3111 or click here. NOTE: All shows are wheelchair accessible, and assistive-listening devices are available for all shows. RALEIGH LITTLE THEATER: http://raleighlittletheatre.org/performances/08-09/cabaret.html. INTERNET BROADWAY DATABASE: http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=3348 (1966 original version) and http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=4848 (1998 revival). INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068327/ You are here: Home > Reviews and articles about the theatre's productions > Review of Cabaret |