Just back from a week of vacation (largely spent here in PDX biking, hiking, piddling), to find early sketches of the set for Cabaret in my in box. Skip Mercier (designer for West Side Story) is designing and shared some very rough ideas about a direction we may head in. Thought you might be interested in taking a peek. The current plan has the orchestra in the pit, with a slim gangway extending out over it for the “Kit Kat Club Sequences.”

One interesting piece of research from the period: after WWI the Allies required economic reparations from Germany for instigating the war. The resulting economic turmoil was staggering. In 1921 a U.S. Dollar was roughly equal to 7 German Marks, by 1923 one U.S. Dollar was equal to 4.2 Trillion Marks!