Carbaret

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Cabaret: Costume Plot

Time: 1929-30 Before the start of the Third Reich
Place: Berlin, Germany

ACT 1, SCENE 1:  KIT KAT CLUB

Emcee:

Period Tails

Cabaret Girls

Short chorus costumes (tawdry and in bad taste)

Girl Orchestra:

Short dresses with hats suggesting a band, also in bad taste

Waiters & Busboys:

Uniformed according to station

Entertainers:

In a variety of European music hall and night club performers costumes. (Ventriloquist, Magician, etc.)

ACT 1, SCENE 2:  A COMPARTMENT OF A EUROPEAN RAILWAY TRAIN

Cliff Bradshaw:

Sport jacket with sleeveless sweater, slacks or suit of period

Ernst:

Suit, hat and trenchcoat

Customs Officers:

Uniform, cape and hat

ACT 1, SCENE 3:  A ROOM AT FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER’S

Fraulein Schneider:

Bathrobe type dressing gown and slippers

Cliff:

Repeat 1-2

Fraulein Host:

Tarty day dress

German Sailor:

Uniform jumper, pants, short jacket and sailor cap

Herr Schultz:

Ill fitting suit

A Girl:

Evening gown of the 20’s

ACT I, SCENE 4:  KIT KAT CLUB

ACT I, SCENE 5:


A Girl:

Repeat I-3

Cliff:

Repeat I-2, I-3

Emcee:

Repeat I-1. Quick change to Father Time gown, wig and beard underdress infant New Year

Sally:

Sexy evening gown, slit to thigh, lacy pants

Cabaret Girls:

Vulgur short cabaret costumes, headpieces

Girl Orchestra:

Repeat I-1

Max:

Period tuxedo

Guests/Men:

Assortment of period tuxedo/dark suits

Guests/Women:

Assortment of evening gown/flapper dress

ACT I, SCENE 6: CLIFF’S ROOM

Cliff:

Slacks, sweater and shirt

Ernst:

Another suit, add trenchcoat and hat

Fraulein Schndeider:

Old fashioned shirtwaist, long skirt

German Sailor:

Uniform jumper, pants, short jacket, sailor cap

Herr Schultz:

Repeat I-3

ACT I, SCENE 9: KIT KAT CLUB

Waiters:

In uniforms repeat I-1, I-4, I-5

Emcee:

Repeat I-1, I-4, I-7

ACT I, SCENE 10: CLIFF’S ROOM

Sally:

Repeat fur coat I – 6, tailored flapper dress

Cliff:

Repeat slacks, sweater, shirt I-6

Ernst:

Repeat suit, trenchcoat, hat I-6

Emcee:

Tails, add top hat and long ascot (covered in sequins)

Russian Girl/Japanese Girl/French Girl/American Girl/German Girl:

All dressed in night club bare version of the National Costume. German girl wears a gong dangling from her belt.

ACT I, SCENE 12:  FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER’S LIVING ROOM

Fraulein Kost:

Repeat dress I-8

Fraulein Schneider:

Repeat dress I-8

Herr Schultz:

Repeat suit I-8

3 German Sailors:

Uniform jumper, pants, short jacket, sailor cap – Repeat I-8

ACT 1, SCENE 13:  HERR SCHULTZ’S FRUIT SHOP

Guests and Performers:

Including girl band and Kit Kat Club – All in street clothes

Cliff:

Repeat suit I-2, overcoat

Sally:

Party dress (pretty)

Fraulein Sschneider:

Long dress, dated, but with a touch of elegance

Fraulein Kost:

Another tarty dress, coat and hat

German Sailors:

Repeat uniforms

Ernst:

Repeat suit, hat, trenchcoat, I-6, I-10, add swastika armband

Emcee:

Repeat rails I-1, I-9, I-11

ACT II, SCENE 1: KIT KAT CLUB

Girl Band:

Short costumes, band caps

Girls and Emcee:

Short semi-military costumes, hat (Emcee is dressed like a girl)

ACT II, SCENE 2:

Herr Schultz:

In shirt sleeves with previous vest and trousers I-13, add apron

Fraulein Schneider:

Dark dress or suit, hat, overcoat, gloves and bag

ACT II, SCENE 3: KIT KAT CLUB

Emcee:

Checked suit, derby

Gorilla:

Gorilla costume, tutu, hat and handbag

ACT II, SCENE 4: CLIFF’S ROOM

Sally:

Street dress, repeat fur coat I-6

Cliff:

Repeat suit, overcoat I-13

Fraulein Schneider:

Period blouse, skirt

Act II, SCENE 5:  KIT KAT CLUB

Guests:

Repeat I-4

Cliff:

Repeat II – 4

Sally:

Flashy flapper dress, quick change to a long gown

Ernst:

Dark suit

Emcee:

Repeat tails, I-1, etc.

2 Men:

Dark suits, Swastika armbands

ACT II, SCENE 6: CLIFF’S ROOM

Cliff:

Slacks, sweater

Herr Schultz:

Repeat a suit, coat and hat

Sally:

Street dress

ACT II, SCENE 7: THE RAILROAD COMPARTMENT

Cliff:

Repeat a suit or sport jacket and slacks

Officers:

Repeat I-2

Emcee:

Repeat tails

Girls:

Repeat I-1

Girl Band:

Repeat I-1

Other Characters:

Some in street clothes with swastika armbands, some in brown shirts, pants and swastikas

Herr Schultz:

Repeat II – 6

Fraulein Schneider:

Repeat period blouse and skirt, II – 4