Cabaret (musical)
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Cabaret is an American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a book by Joe Masteroff. It is based on the 1951 play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten, which in turn was based on the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood.
Julie Andrews was offered the role of Sally Bowles, but her manager refused due to the character's immorality.
Kelly Hunter as Sally Bowles, 1986
Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre) Marquee in London
Weimar culture
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Weimar culture was the emergence of the arts and sciences that happened in Germany during the Weimar Republic, the latter during that part of the interwar period between Germany's defeat in World War I in 1918 and Hitler's rise to power in 1933. 1920s Berlin was at the hectic center of the Weimar culture. Although not part of the Weimar Republic, some authors also include the German-speaking Austria, and particularly Vienna, as part of Weimar culture.
Bauhaus Dessau, built from 1925 to 1926 to a design by Walter Gropius who founded modern architecture
The Europahaus, one of hundreds of cabarets in Weimar Berlin, 1931
Children being fed by a soup kitchen, 1924
A man reads a sign advertising "Attention, Unemployed, Haircut 40 pfennigs, Shave 15 pfennigs", 1927