Cabaret Audition Materials, Excerpt 2

Cabaret!

Auditions for Cabaret on October 20, 21

Acting Audition Materials

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Excerpt 2

Act 1, scene 3a room in Fräulein Schneider’s apartment

SCHNEIDER:So you see, Herr Bradshaw: all comforts!And with breakfast only one hundred marks.

CLIFF:It’s very nice, Fräulein Schneider.But . . . you don’t have anything cheaper?

SCHNEIDER:. . . but for a friend of Herr Ludwig . . .

CLIFF:I’ve very little money.

SCHNEIDER:But you will give English lessons.And you will have many pupils.And they will pay you . . . and then you will pay me.Ja?

CLIFF:Fifty marks.That’s my absolute limit.If you’ve anything else . . . I don’t care how small--how far from the bathroom . . . .

SCHNEIDER:But for a Professor--this is more suitable.

CLIFF:I’m not a Professor.Think of me as a starving author.What do you have for a starving author?

SCHNEIDER:An author!A poet!You have the look!

CLIFF:A novelist.

SCHNEIDER:A novelist!And you will be most famous.It will be like years ago- when in all my rooms--persons of real quality . . . this is your room!Here is for you to write.And look--your window!You can see the whole of the Nollendorfplatz!And there--that little house--the U Bahn station.What you call the Metro.Ja?In ten minutes, you are anywhere in Berlin!

CLIFF:Subway . . .

SCHNEIDER:Such a desirable window for a novelist!

CLIFF:I can still only afford fifty marks.

SCHNEIDER:This room is worth one hundred.More than one hundred.

(a pause)

Fifty?

(he nods)

. . . Sit!

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