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I am sorry to bother you, but I could not tell no one else. I do not know no other woman who gives her body so frequently...

No 367 - Cabaret Director - Bob Fosse Last year an invitation fluttered electronically onto my doormat. My Facebook doormat. It was an invitation for the New Sheridan Club's Christmas party and the theme was painfully precise. Weimar Berlin it shouted out. I was confused, I contacted outside help. "Oh!" came the exasperated sigh of a reply "Just watch Cabaret". So a year later I did. The film follows two friends/lovers as the parade through the decadence of Weimar Berlin and their scrapes and escapades throughout. What I like about this film is that the majority of the film is as flippant and as flighty as that sentence. Then it changes, after all... you can't have 1920's and 1930's Berlin without having a bit of a Nazi rise to power. But before we speak of such things, let us look at the magic of the titular Cabaret. The most important name to mention is Fosse . Him of the jazz dance wizardry. As we enter the world of the Cabaret, we are hit by...