Cabaret (musical) Cabaret (musical) Cabaret is a 1966 musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Joe Masteroff, based on John Van Druten's 1951 play "I Am a Camera", which was adapted from the short novel "Goodbye to Berlin" (1939) by Christopher Isherwood. Set in 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power, it focuses on the nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub, and revolves around young American writer Cliff Bradshaw and his relationship with English cabaret performer Sally Bowles. A sub-plot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her
Melbourne Cabaret Festival the festival was reported to have attracted total audiences of more than 15,200. The fifth annual Melbourne Cabaret Festival took place between 19 June and 6 July 2014 at various nightclub venues across the city and was reported to have featured more than 100 performers in 30 separate shows by cabaret and burlesque artists from Australia and the United Kingdom. Melbourne Cabaret Festival The Melbourne Cabaret Festival is a not-for-profit cabaret festival that has been held each year since 2010 in the city of Melbourne in Australia and that by 2013 had grown to become the world’s second-largest event of