Milan, from 15 November to 10 December 2023, the Teatro Nazionale Che Banca! will host CABARET the MUSICAL, the new eagerly awaited production that will transport the public to the wild Berlin of the 1930s, one step away from the advent of Nazism, among excesses, deprivation of freedom, decadence and daily contradictions, in a distant historical moment but at the same time also very current time. IIrreverent, spicy, spectacular, funny, cinematic,

Cabaret is one of the most famous musicals of all time.
Bob Fosse’s film of the same name starring Liza Minnelli won 8 Oscars and this year marks the 50th anniversary of that incredible ceremony. As a musical on Broadway and in London, it won countless awards in its various editions.

The new show, staged by Arturo Brachetti and Luciano Cannito, runs fast, with a film editing pace, without censorship and prejudice, winding through well-known musical numbers such as “Cabaret, Wilkommen, Money Money”, recreated to the maximum of their brilliance and spectacularity and the most human and touching story of the two couples of lovers, then overwhelmed by an inescapable destiny.

Set in Berlin in 1931, as Nazism spread and strengthened, the musical tells the story of the Kit Kat Klub and the love of nineteen-year-old English cabaret artist Sally Bowles with the American Cliff Bradshaw. Other aspects of the plot tell of the complicated love story of the elderly tenant Fräulein Schneider and her old Jewish suitor Herr Schultz, a greengrocer. Watching over everything, like a Brechtian character, is the a metaphor for the growing threat of the Third Reich. The action takes place in Berlin, in the midst of the economic depression , with its cabarets, its brothels, its frenetic nightlife, its incredible artistic currents that made this capital the melting pot of artists, free thinkers and ordinary people, most of whom were unaware of the advent of Nazism. You will be transported in the Kit Kat Klub, featuring the flamboyant Maitre of Cemonies (Arturo Brachetti)  an Italian artist, famous and acclaimed throughout the world, uniquely considered the great Master of international transformism. . His career began in Paris, where, as the only quick-change artist in the world, he reinvented and brought back the forgotten art of Fregoli, becoming for years the flagship attraction of Paradis Latin, Paris.

Brachetti once again confirms his histrionic excellence on stage, even I had to confess that I think that the show missed a moment totally dedicated to him and to the art of transvestism… whereas Brachetti is famous all over the world,… .

Sally Bowles (Diana Del Bufalo) bring to the stage a lively and talented cabaret artist and a completely lost soul.  The story runs fast, without censorship and prejudice, winding through well-known musical numbers such as “Cabaret, Wilkommen, Money Money”, recreated to the maximum of their brilliance and spectacularity

Photos by Valerio Polverari

Cabaret will be on tour in Italy until February 2024.
December
15-17 ANCONA – Teatro Delle Muse
21 -23  GENOVA – Politeama Genovese
29 -3 January 2024 FIRENZE – Teatro Verdi
January
Il 5, 6 – Politeama Pratese
Dall’8- 10 – Teatro Rossett
Dal 12- 14 – BOLOGNA – Teatro Europauditorium
Dal 19 -21 – BARI – Teatro Team
Dal 26 -28 – UDINE – Teatro Giovanni da Udine
February
Il 3,4 – RIMINI – Teatro Galli
Dal 7-25– NAPOLI – Teatro Dian
You can buy tickets here