Mar 26 2009
It’s a party, my old friend. A party.
On Monday my parents took us out to see Cabaret at the Playhouse. I admit I’m not a great fan of musicals, and Cabaret exemplifies everything I don’t like about them.
- The plot was almost non-existent. In fact, I’m not even sure there was one.
- That doesn’t matter, because whatever could have happened in the story would have been irrelevant, because I didn’t care in the least for any of the characters.
- The songs were indistinct so I couldn’t really tell what they were singing about anyway. Even the one song I did know — that would be the title song — was pretty mumbled.
Oh well, I knew I didn’t like musicals. I did see something horrifying, something that completely blew my mind. A woman sitting in the row in front had a Cliff Richard diary. Will horrors never cease?
Anyway, here’s Cabaret, the song,in BSL.
I wonder if he worked that all out because he was interping a show?
I can’t believe I’d never noticed that errant Labrador before, either.
did you ever see the film. I did about 600 years ago and though also not a musicals person, thought it was entertaining and a bit, woo, edgy (but this was 600 years ago).
There did seem to be a plot and perhaps being close in to the singing/dancing (er, like with the camera) helped focus the whole thing better.
I would have given it a 7 or 8 out of 10 from my distant recollections.
However, after your experience at the Playhouse, perhaps you will never see the movie??