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* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: See MisaimedFandom in the YMMV tab, but even if you're not a neo-Nazi, "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" is sung and filmed in such a way as to be quite stirring, especially when everyone in the park joins in.
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* FanservicePack: The Emcee in the revival. Joel Grey's slinky, androgynous portrayal had previously been the standard, but the character as played by Alan Cumming really, ''really'' started [[{{Fanservice}} servicing the fans]], with a {{Stripperific}} redesign and a more blatantly [[BiTheWay bisexual]] characterization, including a shadow-curtain threesome with both sexes during the "Two Ladies" number.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: More of a vocal example; in the original Christopher Isherwood stories, Sally has an unremarkable, even squawky voice. Of course, that doesn't work so well for the main character of a musical...
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* InformedJudaism: both Natalia and [[spoiler: Fritz]], although in his case he was actively trying to hide it.
* KickTheDog: Almost literally. Some Nazis kill Natalia's dog and [[StuffedIntoTheFridge leave it on her front porch.]]
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* InformedJudaism: both Both Natalia and [[spoiler: Fritz]], although in his case he was actively trying to hide it.
* KickTheDog:Almost literally. Some Nazis kill Natalia's dog and [[StuffedIntoTheFridge leave it on her front porch.]]
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** At the very end of the reprise of "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," the Emcee moons the audience, showing he has a swastika painted on his ass. You want to laugh, but the context is so horrifying.
** As mentioned in the WhamLine section, the end of "If You Could See Her."
** As mentioned in the WhamLine section, the end of "If You Could See Her."
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* MsFanservice: Sally Bowles. Just look at the image above!
* MrFanservice: The Emcee is frequently presented as such, but Alan Cumming's portrayal really stands out and tends to ramp the Emcee's sexual side UpToEleven
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* OneTrueThreesome: "Two Ladies" is about an in-universe example between the Emcee and two of the Cabaret Girls. In some versions, it's the Emcee, a Cabaret Girl and [[BiTheWay a cross-dressing Cabaret Boy]]. In all versions, it's {{Fanservice}}.
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** The Emcee, too; he comes off as the type who'd go for AnythingThatMoves, though.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: The young German soldier who sings "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" in the film version is voiced by Mark Lambert, Henrik in the original production of ''ALittleNightMusic''.
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* MoodWhiplash: In the revival in the final song, Emcee rather suggestively starts to remove his coat, revealing a prison uniform.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Sally Bowles is either tries to be a deconstruction or a subversion Manic Pixie for Cliff, but her determined spunky optimism and unwillingness to grow up make her ignore the threat of this trope.Nazism and drive Cliff away from her.
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* [[GrapesOfLuxury Pineapple of Luxury]]: Frauline Schneider treats Shultz's gift of a pineapple as more luxurious than diamonds or pearls.
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* BrokenBird: Sally. Detailed in "Maybe This Time".
-->'''Sally''': Everybody loves a winner
-->So nobody loved me
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-->Lady Happy
-->That's what I long to be!
-->Well all the odds are
-->They're in my favor
-->It's gotta happen
-->Happen sometime
-->Maybe this time I'll win!
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-->So nobody loved me
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-->Lady Happy
-->That's what I long to be!
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-->They're in my favor
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-->Happen sometime
-->Maybe this time I'll win!
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* DownerEnding: Cliff leaves Berlin heartbroken, Herr Shultz and Fraulein Schneider break up, Germany slides into Nazi tyranny and Sally and everyone else will quite likely suffer the consequences.
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The pineapple is not Black Market Produce, it is Grapes Of Luxury- Shultz gets the pineapple through perfectly legal means, it\'s just rare and expensive; also Prairie Oyster natter
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* HideousHangoverCure: Prairie Oysters, which involves raw eggs and Worcestershire sauce beaten together. Drink it from the toothpaste glass and it tastes just like peppermint!
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* HideousHangoverCure: Prairie Oysters, which involves raw eggs and Worcestershire sauce beaten together. Drink it from the toothpaste glass and it tastes just like peppermint!
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-->'''Brian''': You still think you can control them?
-->'''Brian''': You still think you can control them?
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* GeniusBonus: during the first number, the shot of a woman sitting at a table is an obvious reference to the Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden by the painter Otto Dix, whose art depicts the zeitgeist of Weimar Republic.
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* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Max views the Nazis as a bunch of thugs, but useful for getting rid of Communists. He remarks upon this as he, Sally, and Brian drive past a [[GratuitousUseOfTheTallis dead body covered in a prayer shawl underneath a Nazi banner]]
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->''Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!''
->''Fremde, etranger, stranger.''
->''Gluklich zu sehen, je suis enchante,''
->''Happy to see you, bleibe, reste, stay.''
->''Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome,''
->''Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret!''
-->-- '''The Emcee'''
-->''"There was a cabaret, and there was a master of ceremonies... and there was a city called Berlin, in a country called Germany... and it was the end of the world."''
''Cabaret'' is a stage musical based on a set of short stories by Christopher Isherwood (collected in ''Goodbye To Berlin''), which in turn were based on real events and people. It also drew enormous influence from ''I Am A Camera'' (1951), a straight play based on ''Goodbye to Berlin''. ''Cabaret'' itself was adapted into a film of the same name in 1972. No two versions of this story are the same, all starring wildly different characters, or different versions of the same characters, and following different events. Hell, even the musical itself differs somewhat in content based on what revision you're talking about.
With a sinister but attractive glint in his eye, the Emcee invites us into the decadent provocative world of the cabaret. It's 1929. Sally Bowles, a middle-class lass from Chelsea, London, is working as a singer at Berlin's Kit Kat Klub in order to live the thrilling life the city is supposed to offer. In enters Cliff Bradshaw, a young American writer who comes to Berlin seeking inspiration for his novel, and Sally soon determinedly moves to join him in his room in the boarding house run by Fraulein Schneider (played by [[Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera Miss]] Creator/LotteLenya in the original cast). Their fellow lodgers include the cheerful yet promiscuous working girl, Fraulein Kost, and the gentle, aging Herr Schultz.
As the Nazi clouds gather, Sally, now with child, is still determined to show the world what a good time she is having. Defiant and brave, she either cannot or will not hear the threatening noises around her, yet the others can.
Schultz courts Fraulein Schneider with old-world courtesy and they become engaged. However, he is Jewish; when Nazi sympathizer Ernst Ludwig breaks up their engagement party, the weary landlady is obliged to let her dreams of marriage go.
Cliff finds he has been almost unwittingly smuggling Nazi funds for Ernst, and is beaten up when he refuses to continue the dangerous work. It's time to leave Berlin, but poor self-obsessed Sally can't let the party end. Back in the Kit Kat Klub, the Emcee introduces an ongoing pageant of delusional depravity, a commentary on the "mask of normalcy" people are wearing during the Nazi occupation.
The movie was directed by Creator/BobFosse and won eight Academy Awards, including for Fosse's direction, Liza Minelli's performance as Sally and Joel Grey's as the Emcee. It is particularly notable for dominating the awards in the year of ''Film/TheGodfather'', though the latter's comparatively few awards (three) still included Best Picture.
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!!This musical provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Ernst seems to be a very cordial person, offering Cliff work and recommending a boarding house... up until the audience sees the swastika armband.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Cliff tries to convince Sally of this.
* BetaCouple: Herr Schultz and Fraulein Schneider
* BiTheWay: Cliff, in any version more recent than the original ({{Bowdlerise}}d) production script.
* BlackMarketProduce: There's a musical number that is based on a gift of a pineapple.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: "If You Could See Her"
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In many productions, the Emcee will interact with those in the front-row seats.
* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: Depending on what version you're watching; some stage productions have "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" sung by Hitler Youth boys, as in the movie. Others have the reprise sung by Nazis, but the original sung by a young, gay Cabaret boy, often a racial minority.
* CutSong: The straightest version is "I Don't Care Much" which was cut from the original production and added back later, but every version is missing at least a couple of songs present in other versions.
* DarkReprise: "Wilkommen" gets one in the finale.
* DiscussedTrope: "If this was a movie, you know what would happen?"
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: See MisaimedFandom in the YMMV tab, but even if you're not a neo-Nazi, "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" is sung and filmed in such a way as to be quite stirring, especially when everyone in the park joins in.
* DownerEnding: Germany slides into Nazi tyranny and Sally will quite likely suffer the consequences.
* DramaticIrony: Also historical irony. In possibly the only use of ItWillNeverCatchOn for TearJerker effect, Herr Schultz's prediction that the rise of the Nazis will pass soon enough. Particularly tragic since he is Jewish.
* EpicRocking: The reprise of "Tomorrow Belongs To Me"
* TheEveryman: Played mostly straight with Cliff.
* {{Fanservice}}: The {{Stripperiffic}} outfits for the [[ChorusGirls Kit Kat Klub Girls and Boys]]. Justified in that it ''is'' a cabaret.
* FundamentallyFunnyFruit: During the song "It Couldn't Please Me More", the Jewish grocer, Herr Schultz, presents Fraulein Schneider with a pineapple, which would be rationed in this time period and therefore a very valuable gift.
* GratuitousGerman, followed by GratuitousFrench, followed by GratuitousEnglish: Many of the phrases in the opening number "Willkommen" are sung in manner.
-->'''Emcee:''' Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome!\\
Fremde! Etranger! Stranger!\\
Gluklich zu sehen! Je suis enchante! Happy to see you!\\
Bleibe! Reste! Stay!\\
Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome!\\
Im Cabaret! Au Cabaret! To Cabaret!
* GreekChorus: The Emcee, though for the most part his songs are only tied in thematically, and don't directly comment on the action.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Sally Bowles, [[spoiler: on the other hand, [[AvertedTrope doesn't]]]].
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Sally Bowles. Her drinking increases as the play goes on.
* HideousHangoverCure: Prairie Oysters, which involves raw eggs and Worcestershire sauce beaten together. Drink it from the toothpaste glass and it tastes just like peppermint!
** Actually, this should be '''a''' prairie oyster (singlular), which is a common hangover drink. (BTW, a prairie oyster also contains Tabasco sauce, salt and black pepper. And you don't beat the egg. That way it keeps its oyster-like consistency.) '''Prairie oysters''' (plural) refers to the boiled testicles of various animals found roaming the Great Plains of North America during the 19th century -- bison, cattle, sheep, etc.
* IAmSong: "So What" for Fraulein Schneider.
* InteractiveNarrator: Played with in the Emcee.
* IronicEcho: All over the place in the last few scenes, which collectively comprise a darker mirror image of the first few scenes.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Cliff's novel.
* IWantSong: "Maybe This Time".
* LastChorusSlowDown
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Sally Bowles is either a deconstruction or a subversion of this trope.
* MoneySong: "Sitting Pretty/The Money Song"
* MostWritersAreWriters
* MovieBonusSong / RetCanon: "Mein Herr", [[IWantSong "Maybe this Time"]] and "Money Money".
* MusicalisInterruptus: In the scene where Fraulein Schneider considers ending her engagement with Herr Schultz and he attempts to reassure her, there is a moment when he seems to be succeeding and they start a reprise of the song they sang when he proprosed -- which is interrupted after a few lines by somebody throwing a brick through Herr Schultz's window, ending the song and the engagement.
* TheMusicalMusical
* OpeningChorus: "Wilkommen" featuring the Emcee and the Cabaret Performers.
* SidekickSong: Though Herr Schultz isn't exactly a sidekick, "Meeskite" has a lot in common with other {{Sidekick Song}}s.
* TruckDriversGearChange: Happens in the majority of the songs.
* VillainSong: "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" for the Nazis.
* WeimarRepublic
* WhamLine: "But if you could see her through my eyes... [[spoiler:She wouldn't look ''Jewish'' at all.]]"
* WindowPain: A Nazi throws a brick through Herr Schultz's shop.
!!The film provides examples of:
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: More of a vocal example; in the original Christopher Isherwood stories, Sally has an unremarkable, even squawky voice. Of course, that doesn't work so well for the main character of a musical...
** In the revival, Natasha Richardson played her with a suitable voice, but with added tired inflections that managed to fit both ways.
*** Subverted in the film's famous dance scene with Sally and the bentwood chair. Minelli and Fosse worked hard to show the typically untrained technique and stereotypical moves that an enthusiastic amateur like Sally would have used. Minelli - a trained dancer - later claimed that rehearsing these jerky, exaggerated moves seeded many of her later arthritis problems.
* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Which makes sense--"Ashkenazi" refers to Germany after all--but at [[spoiler: Fritz and Natalia's]] wedding, both the rabbi and the groom pronounce their Hebrew with unbelievably thick Ashkenazi accents
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Max views the Nazis as a bunch of thugs, but useful for getting rid of Communists. He remarks upon this as he, Sally, and Brian drive past a [[GratuitousUseOfTheTallis dead body covered in a prayer shawl underneath a Nazi banner]]
* BetaCouple: Fritz and Natalia
* DramaticIrony: The movie takes place in Germany in the late 20's. Throughout the movie, we see the Nazi party becoming more and more prominent, though not all of the characters do. The end of the film is Sally blithely performing before a crowd of armband-wearing Nazis, though the audience knows even ''that'' will end in time.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Fritz and Natalia. Though how long it will last is [[ThoseWackyNazis not too clear...]]]]
* HeyItsThatVoice: The young German soldier who sings "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" in the film version is voiced by Mark Lambert, Henrik in the original production of ''ALittleNightMusic''.
* InformedJudaism: both Natalia and [[spoiler: Fritz]], although in his case he was actively trying to hide it.
* KickTheDog: Almost literally. Some Nazis kill Natalia's dog and [[StuffedIntoTheFridge leave it on her front porch.]]
* LargeHam: Liza Minelli's Sally Bowles.
* MoneySong: "Money Money"
* MoodWhiplash: Within the one song. "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" starts with a simple boy with a great voice singing. But when the camera pans back to reveal his Hitler Youth uniform and everyone in the audience joins in together, it gets extremely creepy.
** Really there are quite a few of these. There are numerous small set pieces that show the Nazis taking over Berlin that add a feeling of dread to the happy talk of the characters, like the radio with Nazi propoganda or the swastika posters. Then there are the cabaret songs which cut between the upbeat music and darker scenes, such as a man being beaten perhaps to death.
** Another scene cuts between the MC and some of the Kit Kat Club Girls doing a jaunty dance, and a bunch of young men sneaking into Natalia's yard in order to throw her dead dog against her door, all while chanting "JUDEN!JUDEN!" It is around this time that [[ThoseWackyNazis the MC and the girls switch their hats around, which now look like soldiers' helmets, and march offstage...]]
* MovieBonusSong / RetCanon: "Mein Herr", [[IWantSong "Maybe this Time"]] and "Money Money".
* QuieterThanSilence: The credits roll in complete silence.
* SophisticatedAsHell: "I think your paper and you [[ThoseWackyNazis party]] are pure [[PrecisionFStrike crap,]] sir!"
* TriangRelations: Sally/[[spoiler:Maximillian]]/Brian are in a Type 8 relationship, although it's far from harmonious.
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->''Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome!''
->''Fremde, etranger, stranger.''
->''Gluklich zu sehen, je suis enchante,''
->''Happy to see you, bleibe, reste, stay.''
->''Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome,''
->''Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret!''
-->-- '''The Emcee'''
-->''"There was a cabaret, and there was a master of ceremonies... and there was a city called Berlin, in a country called Germany... and it was the end of the world."''
''Cabaret'' is a stage musical based on a set of short stories by Christopher Isherwood (collected in ''Goodbye To Berlin''), which in turn were based on real events and people. It also drew enormous influence from ''I Am A Camera'' (1951), a straight play based on ''Goodbye to Berlin''. ''Cabaret'' itself was adapted into a film of the same name in 1972. No two versions of this story are the same, all starring wildly different characters, or different versions of the same characters, and following different events. Hell, even the musical itself differs somewhat in content based on what revision you're talking about.
With a sinister but attractive glint in his eye, the Emcee invites us into the decadent provocative world of the cabaret. It's 1929. Sally Bowles, a middle-class lass from Chelsea, London, is working as a singer at Berlin's Kit Kat Klub in order to live the thrilling life the city is supposed to offer. In enters Cliff Bradshaw, a young American writer who comes to Berlin seeking inspiration for his novel, and Sally soon determinedly moves to join him in his room in the boarding house run by Fraulein Schneider (played by [[Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera Miss]] Creator/LotteLenya in the original cast). Their fellow lodgers include the cheerful yet promiscuous working girl, Fraulein Kost, and the gentle, aging Herr Schultz.
As the Nazi clouds gather, Sally, now with child, is still determined to show the world what a good time she is having. Defiant and brave, she either cannot or will not hear the threatening noises around her, yet the others can.
Schultz courts Fraulein Schneider with old-world courtesy and they become engaged. However, he is Jewish; when Nazi sympathizer Ernst Ludwig breaks up their engagement party, the weary landlady is obliged to let her dreams of marriage go.
Cliff finds he has been almost unwittingly smuggling Nazi funds for Ernst, and is beaten up when he refuses to continue the dangerous work. It's time to leave Berlin, but poor self-obsessed Sally can't let the party end. Back in the Kit Kat Klub, the Emcee introduces an ongoing pageant of delusional depravity, a commentary on the "mask of normalcy" people are wearing during the Nazi occupation.
The movie was directed by Creator/BobFosse and won eight Academy Awards, including for Fosse's direction, Liza Minelli's performance as Sally and Joel Grey's as the Emcee. It is particularly notable for dominating the awards in the year of ''Film/TheGodfather'', though the latter's comparatively few awards (three) still included Best Picture.
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!!This musical provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Ernst seems to be a very cordial person, offering Cliff work and recommending a boarding house... up until the audience sees the swastika armband.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Cliff tries to convince Sally of this.
* BetaCouple: Herr Schultz and Fraulein Schneider
* BiTheWay: Cliff, in any version more recent than the original ({{Bowdlerise}}d) production script.
* BlackMarketProduce: There's a musical number that is based on a gift of a pineapple.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: "If You Could See Her"
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In many productions, the Emcee will interact with those in the front-row seats.
* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: Depending on what version you're watching; some stage productions have "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" sung by Hitler Youth boys, as in the movie. Others have the reprise sung by Nazis, but the original sung by a young, gay Cabaret boy, often a racial minority.
* CutSong: The straightest version is "I Don't Care Much" which was cut from the original production and added back later, but every version is missing at least a couple of songs present in other versions.
* DarkReprise: "Wilkommen" gets one in the finale.
* DiscussedTrope: "If this was a movie, you know what would happen?"
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: See MisaimedFandom in the YMMV tab, but even if you're not a neo-Nazi, "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" is sung and filmed in such a way as to be quite stirring, especially when everyone in the park joins in.
* DownerEnding: Germany slides into Nazi tyranny and Sally will quite likely suffer the consequences.
* DramaticIrony: Also historical irony. In possibly the only use of ItWillNeverCatchOn for TearJerker effect, Herr Schultz's prediction that the rise of the Nazis will pass soon enough. Particularly tragic since he is Jewish.
* EpicRocking: The reprise of "Tomorrow Belongs To Me"
* TheEveryman: Played mostly straight with Cliff.
* {{Fanservice}}: The {{Stripperiffic}} outfits for the [[ChorusGirls Kit Kat Klub Girls and Boys]]. Justified in that it ''is'' a cabaret.
* FundamentallyFunnyFruit: During the song "It Couldn't Please Me More", the Jewish grocer, Herr Schultz, presents Fraulein Schneider with a pineapple, which would be rationed in this time period and therefore a very valuable gift.
* GratuitousGerman, followed by GratuitousFrench, followed by GratuitousEnglish: Many of the phrases in the opening number "Willkommen" are sung in manner.
-->'''Emcee:''' Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome!\\
Fremde! Etranger! Stranger!\\
Gluklich zu sehen! Je suis enchante! Happy to see you!\\
Bleibe! Reste! Stay!\\
Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome!\\
Im Cabaret! Au Cabaret! To Cabaret!
* GreekChorus: The Emcee, though for the most part his songs are only tied in thematically, and don't directly comment on the action.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Sally Bowles, [[spoiler: on the other hand, [[AvertedTrope doesn't]]]].
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Sally Bowles. Her drinking increases as the play goes on.
* HideousHangoverCure: Prairie Oysters, which involves raw eggs and Worcestershire sauce beaten together. Drink it from the toothpaste glass and it tastes just like peppermint!
** Actually, this should be '''a''' prairie oyster (singlular), which is a common hangover drink. (BTW, a prairie oyster also contains Tabasco sauce, salt and black pepper. And you don't beat the egg. That way it keeps its oyster-like consistency.) '''Prairie oysters''' (plural) refers to the boiled testicles of various animals found roaming the Great Plains of North America during the 19th century -- bison, cattle, sheep, etc.
* IAmSong: "So What" for Fraulein Schneider.
* InteractiveNarrator: Played with in the Emcee.
* IronicEcho: All over the place in the last few scenes, which collectively comprise a darker mirror image of the first few scenes.
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Cliff's novel.
* IWantSong: "Maybe This Time".
* LastChorusSlowDown
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Sally Bowles is either a deconstruction or a subversion of this trope.
* MoneySong: "Sitting Pretty/The Money Song"
* MostWritersAreWriters
* MovieBonusSong / RetCanon: "Mein Herr", [[IWantSong "Maybe this Time"]] and "Money Money".
* MusicalisInterruptus: In the scene where Fraulein Schneider considers ending her engagement with Herr Schultz and he attempts to reassure her, there is a moment when he seems to be succeeding and they start a reprise of the song they sang when he proprosed -- which is interrupted after a few lines by somebody throwing a brick through Herr Schultz's window, ending the song and the engagement.
* TheMusicalMusical
* OpeningChorus: "Wilkommen" featuring the Emcee and the Cabaret Performers.
* SidekickSong: Though Herr Schultz isn't exactly a sidekick, "Meeskite" has a lot in common with other {{Sidekick Song}}s.
* TruckDriversGearChange: Happens in the majority of the songs.
* VillainSong: "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" for the Nazis.
* WeimarRepublic
* WhamLine: "But if you could see her through my eyes... [[spoiler:She wouldn't look ''Jewish'' at all.]]"
* WindowPain: A Nazi throws a brick through Herr Schultz's shop.
!!The film provides examples of:
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: More of a vocal example; in the original Christopher Isherwood stories, Sally has an unremarkable, even squawky voice. Of course, that doesn't work so well for the main character of a musical...
** In the revival, Natasha Richardson played her with a suitable voice, but with added tired inflections that managed to fit both ways.
*** Subverted in the film's famous dance scene with Sally and the bentwood chair. Minelli and Fosse worked hard to show the typically untrained technique and stereotypical moves that an enthusiastic amateur like Sally would have used. Minelli - a trained dancer - later claimed that rehearsing these jerky, exaggerated moves seeded many of her later arthritis problems.
* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Which makes sense--"Ashkenazi" refers to Germany after all--but at [[spoiler: Fritz and Natalia's]] wedding, both the rabbi and the groom pronounce their Hebrew with unbelievably thick Ashkenazi accents
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Max views the Nazis as a bunch of thugs, but useful for getting rid of Communists. He remarks upon this as he, Sally, and Brian drive past a [[GratuitousUseOfTheTallis dead body covered in a prayer shawl underneath a Nazi banner]]
* BetaCouple: Fritz and Natalia
* DramaticIrony: The movie takes place in Germany in the late 20's. Throughout the movie, we see the Nazi party becoming more and more prominent, though not all of the characters do. The end of the film is Sally blithely performing before a crowd of armband-wearing Nazis, though the audience knows even ''that'' will end in time.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Fritz and Natalia. Though how long it will last is [[ThoseWackyNazis not too clear...]]]]
* HeyItsThatVoice: The young German soldier who sings "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" in the film version is voiced by Mark Lambert, Henrik in the original production of ''ALittleNightMusic''.
* InformedJudaism: both Natalia and [[spoiler: Fritz]], although in his case he was actively trying to hide it.
* KickTheDog: Almost literally. Some Nazis kill Natalia's dog and [[StuffedIntoTheFridge leave it on her front porch.]]
* LargeHam: Liza Minelli's Sally Bowles.
* MoneySong: "Money Money"
* MoodWhiplash: Within the one song. "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" starts with a simple boy with a great voice singing. But when the camera pans back to reveal his Hitler Youth uniform and everyone in the audience joins in together, it gets extremely creepy.
** Really there are quite a few of these. There are numerous small set pieces that show the Nazis taking over Berlin that add a feeling of dread to the happy talk of the characters, like the radio with Nazi propoganda or the swastika posters. Then there are the cabaret songs which cut between the upbeat music and darker scenes, such as a man being beaten perhaps to death.
** Another scene cuts between the MC and some of the Kit Kat Club Girls doing a jaunty dance, and a bunch of young men sneaking into Natalia's yard in order to throw her dead dog against her door, all while chanting "JUDEN!JUDEN!" It is around this time that [[ThoseWackyNazis the MC and the girls switch their hats around, which now look like soldiers' helmets, and march offstage...]]
* MovieBonusSong / RetCanon: "Mein Herr", [[IWantSong "Maybe this Time"]] and "Money Money".
* QuieterThanSilence: The credits roll in complete silence.
* SophisticatedAsHell: "I think your paper and you [[ThoseWackyNazis party]] are pure [[PrecisionFStrike crap,]] sir!"
* TriangRelations: Sally/[[spoiler:Maximillian]]/Brian are in a Type 8 relationship, although it's far from harmonious.
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