How often do we think that the time we are experiencing is becoming increasingly similar in the 1920s? The apparently unstoppable decay of a world order, especially due to the re -strengthening of nationalism, the doubts about the acting political class. All of this seems strangely known to you. No other piece of music theater describes this lifestyle of the upheaval, which also inspires a large audience with series like Babylon Berlin, as well as the American musical legend Cabaret.
Using two stories, she tells of love and her failure in politically difficult times. The American writer Cliff Bradshaw is being torn into the still shimmering, but more and more darkening Berlin in the late 20s.
Sally Bowles, a young English singer who appears in the wicked Kit Kat Club and was previously used to sorting her love life on a weekly, will be his new flame. But the young love of these two strangers in Berlin, not only because of constant livelihood problems, hardly get any air to breathe. Finally, difficult -to -compatible life concepts and the completely different assessment of the situation in Germany lead to separation.
The political circumstances intervene even more violently into the late, tender gang of love between pension host Fräulein Schneider and the Jewish vegetable dealer Mr. Schultz. Young people appear at the engagement festival of the two who want a completely different world order. And at the latest after a very tangible attack on Schultz’s shop, it becomes clear that this love in Germany at that time can also have no future.
Through these stories, a demonic conférencier leads to the boundaries between the show and reality with its kit kat girls. “Life is a Cabaret” is therefore also called the title song.
In the spring of 2020, this production was opened with an enthusiastic premiere in the Hansa Theater Hall, in addition to the winter Varieté program, a new program line that deals explicitly for a hundred years later. Other music theater pieces that have this time on the subject should follow. In addition, the stage on the Steindamm becomes the little sister of the St. Pauli Theater. The legendary Hansa turns into the glittering Kit-Kat Club. Her host there is the wonderful and cheered singer and chansonnier Tim Fischer, at the head of a top -class ensemble, with Anneke Schwabe as Sally Bowles, Sven Mattke as Cliff Bradshaw, Angela Winkler as Miss Schneider and Peter Franke as Mr. Schultz.
With a grandiose orchestra, great songs, exciting choreographies and two touching love stories, the viewer is kidnapped in the Golden 20s, immersion in this attitude to life can be immersed. A unique theater experience for all generations.
NEW DATES:
May 9. – June 4. 2023