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"Cabaret" combines high drama, realistic if unconventional morality, and strong characters with astounding melodies. It was based on the play "I Am a Camera" by John van Druten. John Kander, the composer of Cabaret pushed the music into serious moral and Musical terrain. With the emergence of popular music threatening his career as a theatre composer he took his chances and tried a new style of musical. 'When popular music seemed to stop caring about …

…and no one seems very happy. Cliff goes off to live his life in Pennsylvania again, and Sally goes back to her conniving ways for as long as she can, I suppose. The end of the play brings a realistic representation of Nazi Germany, and the happenings of the time. Hitler's hopeless loveless devastating rule brings nothing good to the people of Germany or the world. BIBLIOGRAPHY Reviewer John Esther: Life is never a 'Cabaret'