This was a very popular show, and only a few seats were available when we finally got our tickets. Fortunately all the seats are good in Moore Theater.
This was another great show by the Theater Department: strong cast, great lighting, sound, dancing, sining. Truly a professional production. Virginia Ogden as the Emcee and Justine Goggin as Sally Bowles were both good singers and actresses. It was great to see Owen O’Leary, Hanover High alum, in a big role, and he sang well. The first half was quite long, followed by a quite short second half, I’m not sure why the split went there. However, the ending was quite powerful, with the lighting and costumes quite effective. Sally’s bittersweet and ironic Cabaret song was a great way to end.
In looking up the show, I did remember Liza Minelli, and that was in the Bob Fosse movie. But the original goes back to a novel by Christopher Isherwood, echoed as Clifford Bradshaw in the show. He did indeed live in Germany in that period with Jean Ross, the model for Sally Bowles. His autobiographical novel Goodbye to Berlin features her and the events that eventually become Cabaret