We saw an off-Broadway show that we highly recommend. It’s a four-night only show. We saw the first. The others are May 19 and 25 at 7 pm. May 21 @2 pm.
“Margo & Juliette: A Dance on the Volcano in Weimar Berlin”
A two-woman cabaret of songs from the Weimar period. It’s risqué but no nudity.
It was wonderful!
The parallels to today are powerful, sometimes frightening.
It was akin to going to a cabaret during Weimar. Songs in English and in German. A simple production. Two beautiful singers and a piano.
In the end, very moving.
Only three more performances at the Triad Theatre on West 72 and Amsterdam in Manhattan.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
No nudity? Forget it.
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Turns out that two gorgeous women on stage can be very risqué while fully clothed
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Haaaa!!!!
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Apparently, I have been misled about Weimar art by watching the 1927 film Metropolis. This sounds exciting! I’m excited (in a good way, not suggestive at all).
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Just kidding. I love this sort of thing. Sounds awesome, Diane!
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This looks wonderful!
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Reminds me of the movie “Cabaret” with Liza Minnelli.
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Liza is just brilliant.
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My niece was involved i that when she was a theater student. I went without knowing what it was about. I left very troubled.
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There was a cabaret, and there was a master of ceremonies and there was a city called Berlin, in a country called Germany—and it was the end of the world . . . .
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Imagine seeing a cabaret, supposedly in Weimar Berlin, in Germany, where two gorgeous women sing the songs that were sung a century ago, celebrating sexual freedom, weeping for the men maimed during the “Great War” and asking what was so great about it; mocking Hitler; protesting the ban on abortion (the Nazis wanted more babies); singing “The Lavender Song” (gay rights). A last burst of freedom, protest, insouciance, happening as it did before all of that was destroyed by evil.
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Wow. This sounds just wonderful, Diane! So happy you got a chance to see it! This spirit in people doesn’t die. The fascists do what they can to kill it, and it springs up again!!!
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As fascism looms again, right here. My Lord. We fought a war against this stuff in the middle of the last century. Do we have to do this all over again?
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/politics/alito-princeton-classmate-susan-squier-cnntv/index.html
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