4:45pm - Saturday, Aug 2, 2025
Cabaret
Berlin, 1931. As Nazism rises in Germany, flamboyant American Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli, never better) sings in a decadent nightclub and falls in love with a British language teacher --whom she shares with a homosexual German baron. But Sally's small, carefree, tolerant and fragile cabaret world is about to be crushed under the boot of the Nazis as Berlin becomes a trap from which Sally's German friends will not escape in this ground-breaking, blockbuster film version of the Broadway musical Cabaret. With Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, and Marisa Berenson.
Beautifully restored and remastered for its 50th Anniversary in 2022, CABARET was the winner of eight Academy Awards in 1972, including Best Actress (Minnelli), Best Director (Bob Fosse), and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Grey).
"It’s hard to believe it’s half a century since Cabaret first sashayed into cinemas: in look, sound and sensibility, it still feels fresh and daring, expanding the possibilities of what musicals can do and say at every turn." (Film of the Week)
"Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey are electrifying; director Bob Fosse's choreography and the camera work are scintillating." (Empire Magazine)
"Superbly choreographed by Fosse, the cabaret numbers evoke the Berlin of 1931 - city of gaiety and perversion, of champagne and Nazi propaganda - so vividly that only an idiot could fail to perceive that something is rotten in the state of Weimar." (Time Out)
"This viscerally powerful, deliriously inspired musical stands the test of time, and then some." (Guardian)
Saturday, August 2
Doors 4:10 pm | Movie 4:35 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
CABARET (Bob Fosse, 1972 / 124 mins / PG) A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic-era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
*Minors OK. Must be 19+ w/ID for bar service.
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