cabaret

San Francisco Playhouse’s cast brings unique individual nuance to the already iconic and unbeatable music and choreography of “Cabaret.”

“Cabaret” would fail to ride the wave of its surprise win, losing out to the old “razzle dazzle” of 2002 Best Picture winner “Chicago” as Rob Marshall’s tale of merry murderesses made its way to the Final Four.

The greatest challenge of “Cabaret” is balancing the bold rendition with the faithful one. The Refuge’s production exists somewhere square in the middle of the spectrum.

While the show does a great job of creating a fun environment, it does a better job of displaying the consequences of passivity when confronted with evil.

I realized with a start that I’d been here many times before.