Sally Bowles
sang Life Is a Cabaret
in the Broadway and film musical Cabaret. Like life, the cabaret scene (and its music) can be raw, immediate, bitter, sweet, sad, or romantic—but always an intimate experience. With a past that stretches from 19th-century Parisian cafés to seedy 1920s Berlin clubs to today's sophisticated Manhattan nightspots, cabaret has always been a place where the evening's entertainment breaks down the boundaries between performer and audience. Best exemplified by...
