Original Broadway Cast of Cabaret & Joel Grey
Lotte Lenya
Original Broadway Cast of Cabaret & Joel Grey & Jill Haworth
Original Broadway Cast of Cabaret
Jill Haworth & Bert Convy
Joel Grey, Mary Ehara & Rita O’Connor
Lotte Lenya & Jack Gilford
Original Broadway Cast of Cabaret &
Bert Convy
Joel Grey
Lotte Lenya & Jack Gilford
Jack Gilford
Original Broadway Cast of Cabaret
Joel Grey
Lotte Lenya
Jill Haworth
Original Broadway Cast of Cabaret
This metatheatrical number comes late in the play, delivered on the Kit Kat Club stage by Sally. In the action of the play, this is the point where she has a doctor abort the child Cliff has fathered on her. The song is thus infused with listlessness, desperation, and even rage, depending on how the...
[SALLY]
What good is sitting alone in your room?
Come hear the music play
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the Cabaret
Put down the knitting, the book and the broom
It's time for a holiday
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the Cabaret
Come taste the wine
Come hear the band
Come blow a horn, start celebrating
Right this way, your table's waiting
What good's permitting some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away
Life is a cabaret, old chum
So come to the Cabaret!
I used to have a girlfriend known as Elsie
With whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea
She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower...
As a matter of fact, she rented by the hour
The day she died the neighbors came to snicker:
"Well, that's what comes from too much pills and liquor!"
But when I saw her laid out like a Queen
She was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen
I think of Elsie to this very day
I remember how she'd turn to me and say
"What good is sitting all alone in you room?
Come hear the music play
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the Cabaret!"
And as for me, and as for me
I made my mind up back in Chelsea
When I go
I'm going like Elsie
Start by admitting from cradle to tomb
It isn't that long a stay
Life is a cabaret, old chum
It's only a cabaret, old chum
And I love a cabaret!
Cabaret was written by John Kander & Fred Ebb.
Cabaret was produced by Goddard Lieberson.
Jill Haworth released Cabaret on Mon Nov 28 1966.