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!!Stage musical
* 'What Would You Do?', particularly as Fraulein Schneider is likely - and unfortunately - right about everything she says. The aftermath has her being strong until she finally breaks and runs out.
* The reprise of 'Married.'
** Let's face it, the entire Fraulein Scheinder and Herr Schutlz relationship is the saddest part of the show.
** The worst part is that it really looks like he'll convince her about giving the marriage a chance... and then the brick flies through the window.
* 'I Don't Care Much' was originally written for Sally to sing, however it was cut in Previews and was added back in the 1987 Revival forewarning the title song, by The Emcee, however it was given added detail in the 1999 revival where he sings it after injecting himself. He looked seedier; with the visible track mark on his arm.
** The introduction of the title song works, too. The Emcee sounds so broken when he tries to give a boisterous introduction to Sally.
* The title song, in which Sally [[StepfordSmiler desperately tries to stay optimistic]] despite her (and her country's) worsening dilemma. She ''knows'' things are about to go to hell, but she doesn't want to believe it. She just wants her life to continue being, well, a "cabaret".
** During some versions of the title song, Sally puts a noticeable pause between "The day she died" and "the neighbors came to snicker." There's two possible interpretations for that pause both of which are depressing: If the song is just a metaphor for what Sally's going through, then it could be the moment she realizes what fate her hard-core partying lifestyle will lead her to. If the song is something that actually happened to Sally, then she's reliving her friend Elsie's death and how she overheard people making fun of her on the day she died.
** Creator/NatashaRichardson’s rendition perfectly embodies the StepfordSmiler trope. Even when she starts welling up with tears by the end, she never drops that poor, hopeless smile…
** The 2022 London revival deserves special mention for its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DVxxFRxT_8 raw and visceral take on the song]]. Sally isn't even trying to smile her way through the pain here, she's letting it out in ''full force''. This particular performance (featuring Amy Lennox as Sally) has her ''screaming'' the final chorus in a tearful wail, and you see every bit of pain in her face. It's like a total emotional breakdown in the form of a song.
* The Emcee's ending is two kinds of tragic, depending on how one interprets his presence in the play. If he's just a symbol for Germany, start to finish, then that final reveal in the prison uniform is a WhatHaveIBecome moment. But if you interpret the Emcee as also being a real character, then we're seeing a broken human being who was once the Master of Ceremonies, now another Jewish and gay victim of the Holocaust. In most productions, he flings himself forward at the final cymbal crash, as the lights flicker out - implying he [[DrivenToSuicide leapt onto an electric fence]].
* Sally's confession that she has had the abortion, she is broken, almost a shell of herself; when she hints at the act Clifford doesn't clock it, but when she tells him, he responses with a slap. She remarks it would have ended this way with or without a baby, then Cliff gives Sally a train ticket for Paris. She pretends to be the old Sally with a witty remark, clearly she won't try to find him but she pleads with him to give her something in the book he will write about them. As he shuts the door she sits alone as the lights fade.
** In the original 1966 script, Sally starts off catty after being hit, then she apologises to Cliff for doing it.
* When the script was revised in 1987 (the revivals since then have more or less followed this script) to include Cliff's homosexuality, Sally has a line after the abortion where she tells Cliff that domestic life would never have worked out for ''either'' of them...that either "I'd have run away with the first exciting thing that came along...''or you would.''" Meaning, of course, that Cliff wouldn't have been able to keep up the facade of being a straight husband. When Cliff protests, "That's not true, I would never have run away, not if there was a baby..." Sally replies, "To hold us together, you mean? Oh, Cliff, what a terrible burden to place on an infant." This scene can be twice as heartbreaking if Cliff takes a moment to silently realize that Sally's right, that he'd never have fit into a heteronormative life and, deep down, he knew it all along.
** For that matter, imagine what it must be like for Cliff to realize that this was one place, in this time period where LGBT people were persecuted and shamed, where he and others like him could be themselves openly...and know it's all about to fall to pieces as people who are willing to KILL them for it come to power.
* Crossing over with FridgeHorror...that moment when the audience realizes the BEST they can hope for Herr Schultz is that he dies of natural causes before the end of the thirties.
%%* "Maybe This Time". [[BrokenBird Poor Sally...]]

!!1972 film
* When Sally reveals to Brian that her Father didn't fly in to see her (having changed his plans), she angrily vows to be the star, it's clear that she was neglected by him and that while she feels he loves her it's a flawed attempt. She then breaks down blaming herself for not being enough.
* During [[VillainSong "Tomorrow Belongs to Me"]], one elderly extra pointedly does not sing along, looking disturbed and anxious the whole time, while everyone else around him joins in. [[FridgeHorror He's probably going to the camps soon, too.]]
* Sally gets the abortion without telling Brian, and the heartbreak is palpable on both sides. He also gets angry at first, and she tells him he might as well hit her.