Re: Costumes for Cabaret

Christopher Jahn wrote ...> Everytime you post this, we all flinch because you STILL have the
dates wrong.

Here's a good start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_to_Berlin

I don't think he has!

As I understand, it "Goodbye to Berlin" was set in the dying days of the Weimar Republic BEFORE the Nazi rise to power, which places it pre-1933. Isherwood arrived in Berlin in 1929 and met Jean Ross, upon whom he partly based the character of Sally Bowles, in 1931. So sometime between 1929 and 1933 would seem a perfectly reasonable setting.

In fact, just took a closer look at the very Wikipedia article you recommended and followed the links from the short stub entry to the much more extensive entries for Cabaret the stage musical and Caberet the film. They confidently state that the musical was set in 1929-1930 (as Shaz has concluded) and the film version slightly later in 1931, before the rise to power of the National Socialist Party.

David

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