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Article: Vegas meets `Moulin Rouge'; A new take on "Cabaret" opens Tuesday at the Ordway.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- May 4, 2008
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Byline: ROHAN PRESTON; STAFF WRITER
We tend to think of Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s as a sinister era of creeping fascism. Some historians, including Eric Weitz of the University of Minnesota, argue that such a view is too narrow. In addition to the social and financial instability that marked that era, Weimar Germany was a frontier of artistic innovation and progressive social movements that arrived elsewhere only later in the 20th century, including advancements in labor, women's rights and sexual liberation.
Weitz's 2007 book, "Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy," influenced a theatrical team to do a radically new interpretation of Kander ...