What some viewers might find a tad distasteful is the general lack of clothing and the glaring abundance of exposed flesh. A verbal disclaimer at the beginning of the show takes sensitive audience members into account and promises to refund ticket purchases within the first 15 minutes of performance. But don't be silly. With garter belts and hot pants and lacy underthings littering the oval stage, keeping audience members focused on the action could be difficult, but chorus members blend unassumingly into the periphery, like gyrating, vocal props. In fact, if it weren't for the chorus, the stage would have been startlingly barren.
Smoke escaping from built-in grates adds to the murky warehouse appeal.
A desolate lighting scheme highlights the squalid conditions polluting Berlin's soul in 1940s Germany.