“Cabaret,” a musical by Joe Masteroff with lyrics by Fred Ebb and music by John Kander, is based on the play “I am a Camera” (1951) by John Van Druten. This play, in turn, is based on the novel “The Berlin Stories” by Christopher Isherwood. The original Broadway production, produced and directed by Harold Prince, first opened on November 20, 1966. This hit musical was adapted into a film titled, “Cabaret” directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse in 1972. The film “Cabaret,” though based on the musical by the same name, is different from the musical in many aspects. First, the female lead, Sally Bowles, is American in the film while the same character is a British national in the musical. Besides, the main male character, Cliff Bradshaw, an American in the musical, has been renamed Brian Roberts who hails from England. Yet another character named Maximilian Von Heune in the film has been removed from the musical. In addition, the love story of Herr Schultz and Fraulein Schneider in the musical has been omitted in the film version. Another major difference is the addition of the love story of Fritz Wendel, a Jew pretending to be a Protestant, and Natalia Landauer, a wealthy Jew heiress, as a subplot in the movie. Moreover, several songs in the musical have been substituted by new songs composed by Kander and Ebb. The plot of the film version deviates from that of the musical. The movie focuses on the love story of Sally Bowles, a cabaret singer of Kit Kat Klub, and Brian Roberts, a British writer. The timeframe is set in 1931 Berlin when the Nazi regime has been assuming control over the whole country through their planned agenda. After arriving in Berlin, Brian moves into a boarding house where Sally lives. He takes up a job of giving English lessons as a means of livelihood. At first, when Sally tries to seduce him, he makes it clear that he is not interested in women. However, they fall in love later after Sally undergoes an emotional breakdown when she fails to meet her father and she feels that her father does not care for her. One day, they meet a guy named Maximilian Von Heune, who is very rich. Sally becomes enticed by his wealth and is seduced by him. Max then disappears all of sudden, leaving behind some money for the couple. Sally discovers that she is pregnant, but she has no idea whose baby it is. Brian proposes to her, and at first, Sally accepts it. However, subsequently, Sally realizes that she is never going to be happy with him and the baby, and resorts to abortion. Brian leaves Germany and heads for England while Sally continues to live in Berlin. Despite the story’s focus being on the above couple, the most interesting character in Cabaret is the Emcee of Kit Kat Klub. He performs songs that comment on every single situation that happens in the real world outside the cabaret. It appears that he knows everything even if he is visible in the cabaret scenes only. He has ready information about what is going on, what is happening outside, and even how people feel about one another. In Kantor’s article “Harold Prince and Cabaret,” he quotes Joel Grey, who plays the Emcee of Kit Kat Klub; “Hitler presented himself as “There’ll be food on every table, so come with me.” I always thought my character was very similar in terms of what I offered the audience.” Hitler could read pe