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Deerfield Academy presents "Cabaret"

Deerfield Academy presents its Winter 2016 Musical Production, Kander and Ebb's "Cabaret."

Directed by Catriona Hynds and Katie Speed
Musical Direction by Barbara Lipstadt
Choreography by Lori Clark

"Cabaret" takes place from 1929-1930, a time when Berlin, in the midst of a Post-World War I economic depression, is transitioning from an underground, avant-garde cultural epicenter to the beginnings of Hitler's totalitarian regime and the rise of the Nazi Party. Into this world enters Clifford Bradshaw, a struggling American writer looking for inspiration for his next novel. On his first night in Berlin, Cliff wanders into the Kit Kat Club, a seedy nightclub overseen by the strange, omniscient and gender-bending Master of Ceremonies, "the Emcee." Here, Cliff meets Sally Bowles, a vivacious, talented cabaret performer, and an utterly lost soul. As Cliff and Sally fall further into an unconventional romantic relationship, the world around them begins to change, and all are confronted with the looming horror that the Nazi Party will bring to their city.

Come join a cast and crew of over 40 students and four different performing arts programs in a look at the gritty underbelly of Berlin in a tumultuous time in human history, and question how much have we really changed as a society.