Fabulett 1933

The Weimar Republic encouraged a blossoming of outrageous performance especially in cabaret bars, with freedom and indulgence for all sexualities. Then the Nazi party came to power and began to shut them down and pursue the unacceptable artists. In this exploration in song, Michael Trauffer plays Felix, MC of one such decadent establishment, the Fabulett. On the club's closing night, in corset, leather trousers and bejeweled hat, he sings us through his life experience. Accompanied sympathetically by Herr Hans (James Hall), we learn of his early family life before he found a new family in the Berlin club, allowed to be his true self for the first time. He exhorts us all ““Do not be afraid to be queer and different.”