The show is currently running at Milton Keynes Theatre, with its opening night on Monday.

Set in 1931 Berlin, it focuses on nightlife at the Kit Kat Klub and revolves around the English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with young American writer Cliff Bradshaw.

Sally (played by Samantha Barks, runner-up of BBC TV's I'd Do Anything) is an English singer at the club, with a worldly-wise attitude but total lack of perception of events around her, seemingly valuing her job above everything else, and certainly above the man she claims to love, Cliff Bradshaw.

Emcee (played by world-renowned dancer Wayne Sleep) hosts and performs at the Klub, and it is quite clear to the audience that not only does he watch everything that goes on around him but seems to enjoy the horror of the situation too.

The story that unfolds from the Kit Kat Klub, a place of decadent celebration, is set against the backdrop of growing Nazi terror and the effect it has on the people and places in 1931 Berlin.
The glitz and glamour is soon overtaken by reality, and the idea that 'life is a cabaret' is a clear fallacy.

The show runs at Milton Keynes Theatre until Saturday, April 18. Box office: 08700 606652.