This past week marked 58 years since the opening night for the Broadway premiere of “Cabaret” in 1966. The composer John Kander, the lyricist Fred Ebb and the playwright Joe Masteroff wrote “Cabaret” in collaboration with the director Harold Prince as a response to the era. Night after night, I witnessed audiences grappling with the raw, unsettling reflection that “Cabaret” held up to them. I’m hearing from friends in the current Broadway production of “Cabaret” that the line is once again getting an audible response, but of a different sort. Today, it seems the line is playing exactly as the Nazi-sympathizing Emcee would have intended.

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Persons: John Kander, Fred Ebb, Joe Masteroff, Harold Prince, —, Kat Club’s, Nazism, ”, gasped Organizations: Broadway, Overseas, Nazi Locations: Vietnam, Berlin, America, Boston