Jeff Jacobs: Guilford's Brianna Seixas wanted to be a 'football player.' Her hard work was rewarded with a touchdown.Danbury bakeries ordered to pay nearly $1 million in back wages to employees.Connecticut company cutting 1,000 office jobs, report says.Light-hearted fun, in songs such as “Don’t Tell Mama” segue in alarming ways to the themes of “Tomorrow Belongs To Me,” as it echoes the Nazi message, and the hidden-in-plain-sight discrimination of “If You Could See Her,” as the emcee dances with his dummy doll lady friend.

The fact that he is Jewish becomes an obstacle of elephantine proportions. MacLeod, and the sweetheart of a greengrocer Herr Schultz, Kevin Ligon, who wants to make Fraulein Schneider his wife. She is busy keeping track of her tenants, such as the overly friendly to sailors Fraulein Kost, a convincing Terra C. On the train into town, Cliff meets the dangerously single-minded Ernst Ludwig, a focused-for-the cause Tim Fuchs, who helps Cliff secure a room at the boarding house of Fraulein Schneider, a hard-working and sincere Jennifer Smith. She dangles men like so much jewelry, using them to accommodate her needs, such as the club owner Max and the newcomer to Berlin, the American writer Cliff Bradshaw, played by the naive but trusting Bruce Landry. Headlining the show is the sparkling singer from Mayfair, England, Miss Sally Bowles, played by a stars-in-her-eyes Aline Mayagoitia, who is busy breezing through life seemingly without a care. The welcome mat is securely laid out by the seductive and most accommodating Emcee Jelani Remy, who urges you to leave all your troubles outside and have a good time, especially with his bevy of Kit Kat Girls to entertain you. The frantic and frenetic times created so masterfully by Joe Masteroff’s book, John Kander’s music and Fred Ebb’s lyrics in “Cabaret,” based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood, will be on splendid display, thanks to the glittering scenic design by Michael Schweikardt, complete with a dizzying array of disco balls, the spot-on choreography of Lainie Sakakura and glamour personified in Lex Liang’s costumes.

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