Here’s one from the stack—easygoing and chatty: 1969 Cabaret in their own words. We did now It’s only got two three weeks left So we saw it the other night went backstage to say hello to Melissa Hart Who’s an old friend from around these parts lots of friends She went to school here was at Northwestern in second city and we enjoyed the show very much I had not read the book or seen the play before, you know, it’s based on I am a camera and has to do with Germany before Hitler took over this also as a period in history that I never really studied very much about did you I was a little boy And I wasn’t aware of the the great pangs and struggled at Germany was going through well I don’t think any of us here were I don’t think it was ours to study It seemed very unimportant and had anybody realized the importance of it Maybe Hitler wouldn’t have taken over and I think that’s the whole picture that cabaret presents and perhaps it has a sort of message for us Sure, but it is that feeling that life was so gay in Berlin Everybody was having so much fun and if the name Hitler or if a swastika armband appeared people almost tried not to notice They just didn’t want to be bothered because life was a cabaret There’s only one moment of violence and yet being just the one small moment it tremendously symbolic the shop of The Jewish gentleman the middle age to elderly Jewish gentlemen There was a brick thrown through a window and I I got the the tremendous Impact of what was to come in a way you’re in a way looking down on all those little people on that little globe and watching them Struggle and you could get the feeling of the terrible things that were to happen in Germany I like the show I don’t think I would recommend it for the entire family because since it does show Like the rise and fall of the Grecian Empire the Roman Empire when the world gets into a stage where Men are slobs women don’t care about themselves and just a complete mess in the country It doesn’t make for the kind of theater that I would want a small child see do we agree? Yes, I agree I think however that it in this particular show It is in its place that the authors were attempting to show us that the German people The society as a whole was sliding downhill some In contrast to the moment of violence at the end of the first act when they sang tomorrow belongs to me You got the great feeling of this pulling together of the young band of Nazis Who? Invited to a party that was not Nazi still all of a sudden this song drew them together and You saw the power of the youth in that country at that time Yeah, I think the most exciting thing of all for Chicagoans is to see Melissa Hart in the show however and everybody got to go See it just for that reason alone because a Sally Hart as we’ve known her and it’s I think is the name She used at second city is just such a delight to watch on stage.

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