Fuck that last bit hits hard, what an amazing show

Alan is divine

I love how haunting and broken the Willkommen melody is here. It’s the absolute final warming that the joy of the club is gone and SOMETHING is wrong

Everyone has their favorite but for me, it’s Alan. He owned this role and made it his own. Phenomenal actor. Every movement, every facial expression is brilliant and done with purpose. Love you always Alan!

This man is brilliant.

This version of the ending is so much more powerful and effective than the more common and shorter ending. I really wish this one was used in more professional productions, the only productions I've seen use this ending are non professional ones.

I saw a local performance of Cabaret and during this song some of the musicians had Yellow Stars, Pink Triangles or both on their costumes. As the song went on cast members dressed in uniform would usher them out, with many giving resistance and trying to continue the song, but ultimately being dragged off. The sounds of notes missing a beat or being interrupted only for the instrument to be silent as the song continued was haunting. At the curtain call the director gave a big thank you to all the musicians who were comfortable enough with their identity to have it presented and to be a part of the show. The fact that the people being taken offstage were actually Jewish or Queer really emphasized the true nature of Nazi Germany and the Shoah, that the treatment was real and that it would have happened to them had they actually been there. It really emphasized how all of this really happened, and that it can happen again.

The version that I saw had the scenery part to reveal a stark white wall, which was , I assume, was the shower of a Nazi death camp. It was a disturbing ending.

Trump and the band plays on

Where did you get this?

The shadow of alan cummings nose giving a Hitler mustache shadow is such a spooky touch

Brilliant

This is well done but not as terrifying as the film ending. That gives unambiguous chills . An Italian friend put it this way, "Use well your right to vote, American friend."

This is so gut wrenching

I just wanna hug him!

I saw Alan perform live at the old studio 54 venue and the entire production was magnificent, especially Alan.

Alan Cummings was masterful. I am so glad to have seen him on Broadway in this. Such a great story

Alan Cummings was masterful. I am so glad to have seen him on Broadway in this. Such a great story

tres fabulous

When the MC removes his trench coat to reveal his prison uniform, this is the moment when we learn that he is also Jewish (his dirty secret!) and solidifies him as being among the victims of the Holocaust, despite his antagonistic behavior throughout the narrative which he himself has woven. This information raises a new question as the curtain closes, that is not answered directly: Did the MC lure the other characters, as well as the audience into the story just to destroy them? The likely conclusion is: yes, obviously.

Powerful 0:41

BRAVO

Brilliant and very disturbing how the ending is supposed to be I think Brilliant acting by all baci x

When she says "When I'm going I'm going like Elsie." We pretty much know her fate, the Nazi's were at this point hunting down members of the club for being gay, being political dissidents and what have you. So she chose her own way out. Everyone on that stage was probably dead some not for being german but for not being german enough.

I don’t think Cliffs character is talked about nearly enough. Mind you he has dealt with and witnessed: His first friend in Germany, a man he trusted, turn out to be a Nazi, his other friends lose pretty much everything, and his girlfriend completely turning her back on him and ABORTING THEIR CHILD. Dude has been put through the wringer.

so many little moments where Alan says so much without actual words. his grin when he steps up behind Bradshaw. the paranoid quick glance around when Fraulein Schneider says '...if the Nazis come...' the sardonic chuckle when Herr Schultz insists 'what am i? a German.' the way he drops the 'fun-time-guy' facade at '...no troubles *here*, the air quotes when he says '...happy to see you...', and of course when he drops the coat. and thus the whole act. and the others get their moment: Cliff has become so disillusioned that the novel he was so excited to write is now a bleak shadow of itself. Fraulein Schneider being resigned to her fate. Sally's bit of mania that fades with her death the orchestra being a discordant mess after the EmCee just said it's beautiful.

She's riding a caterpillar 🐛

You can almost physically see the sarcasm dripping when the MC says “beeeuuutiful”

Still devastating to this day...

Immediately after this video (which I've watch a lot and never noticed this before) KZbin is suggesting the "One Last Time" rendition at the Whitehouse in 2016. I love it and hate it. NB, LGBTQIA+ tea spiller in America: I worry for safety. Myself and others. I want to work for my country with and eye to bettering it, but I worry my country will kill me before then. There are many of us out here looking back, listening, and having to choose sides we never thought we would. Fuck the Na**s. And thank you to the Kit Kat Club safe haven.

I absolutely love this ending, but one change I would happily also embrace, is when Emcee says "Even the orchestra is BEAUTIFUL", a local theatre had the background unlit until that line. At that moment, the lights flared, suddenly revealing empty chairs. We had been listening to just a recording of music, preselected by people we couldn't see or influence. Loved that touch.

I once went to a stage performance of cabaret in Blackpool grand theatre, with Wayne sleep, thay sang the end song and at the end they slipped off stage, then you saw the curtain rise up and the cast was in a pile on top of each other naked, and someone dressed as a German soldier came on with a gas mask and had tins of cyclon b in a small trolly, as you can guess, the audience was silent except for some people took a sharp intake of breath!

Mr. Alan Cummings is brilliant!! The whole cast is beautiful, even the orchestra is beautiful!!

Alan Cummings is spell-binding. Amazing performance!

Cabaret went from an exaggeration to reality.

Is Adam Godley (Mr. Trench, the apologizing teacher in the school musical from Love Actually) playing Cliff at 0:01? Great performance from everyone, but the costume is historically inaccurate for a gay Jew in a concentration camp.

I have been studying the holocaust and I highly doubt this was intentional but the miserable looks on the orchestra’s faces you can only barely make out and the near ear piercing sounds you begin to hear made this just even more upsetting. I have heard stories of the nazi’s forcing people in concentration camps to perform in order to humiliate them and to drown out sounds of executions. They would beat and torture them if they were even slightly incorrect on how it was performed And hearing the orchestra at the beginning and the general feeling the music puts out just makes it so much more disturbing to me I could just be wrong and it was completely unintentional but i feel like it is horrific either way

Cabaret summarizes the failure of Germany as a society to fight extremism!

Is that Jane Horrocks?

My daughter and I got to see this when it was at 54 in New York City. I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house at the end it was a standing ovation. It was amazing and I had chills. He’s an excellent actor

Fabulous!

Sends chills down Yr spine 😢

Brilliant. Powerful. Terrifying.

Terrible

I still think Alan’s finest work was as the vicar Mr Elton in ‘ Emma’ ! I love him in anything though! Vampish but still cute.

It’s not just a musical. It really happened.

So captures the profound DarkNESS & UNspeakABLE malevolence imminently 'on the horizon's in Nazi Germany @ that time! Cummings, as ALWAYs, is superlative & Incandescent! He literally OUT-does Grey's interpretation in this inspired REvival!!! Thank you 4 sharing it!!! ♥️🎊🥰🎉👍!!!!

The ending of the current UK one is a lot different- the Cabaret dancers are by this point wearing drab clothing, like Hitler's Brown Shirts, in fact the train conductor is the same actor as the Emcee.

Breaks my heart, the ending. Be wary, very wary.

Being not only a Jew, but also a gay man, there is almost no chance the Emcee survived being in a concentration camp. The Nazis were horribly to everyone in the camp, but tended to be especially cruel (which is really saying something when you consider how impeccably cruel they were to everyone) to certain groups in particular, one being gay men. Gay men were often beaten daily, experimented, castrated, and more. They were targeted for more punishment. So cruel within indescribable cruelty.