(above) Star attraction Sally Bowles sums up one of the play’s major themes in the heart-wrenching song “Cabaret.”

(left) “Money makes the world go ’round,” according to the Kit Kat Club’s eccentric emcee (front).

(below) Two patrons enjoy the Kit Kat’s collection of sexy dancers in one of Cabaret’s many song-and-dance interludes, “Don’t Tell Mama.”