Timothy Murphy Playhouse Presents Cabaret

MIDDLEBURGH — Timothy Murphy Playhouse presented the musical Cabaret over the weekend — with three show in the Middleburgh High School Auditorium. Directed by Myleah Misenhimer Frary, Choreographed by Sarah Clermont, with Musical Director Mikayla Pecan, and Artistic Designer Tim Fisher.

Set in 1930s Berlin as the Nazi party rises to power, Cabaret explores themes of political and social decay, and individual desire versus societal pressure. Cabaret takes place in and around the Kit Kat Club, a seedy, hedonistic nightclub run by the Emcee (played by Isaac Simeon). When American Cliff Bradshaw (played by Antonio Brooks) arrives in Berlin planning to write a book, he finds inspiration in the Kit Kat Club and the people he meets there. He falls in love with performer Sally Bowles (played by Stella Beardsley) and witnesses the rise of Nazism and how it becomes inescapable.