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The German word Willkommen translates to "welcome" in English, and marks the first song of the musical Cabaret, which takes audience members on a journey through Weimar Germany's netherworld in 1929.

Here's a look at some of the characters encountered along the way:

• The Emcee - The Emcee of the Kit Kat Klub and a leering, ghoulish figure
• Sally Bowles - The headlining British singer at the Kit Kat Klub
• Clifford Bradshaw - An American writer traveling through Berlin, forms an unlikely romance with Bowles
• Fraulein Schneider - An older woman who runs the boarding house that Cliff and Sally live in
• Herr Schultz - An elderly Jewish fruit shop owner who falls in love with Fraulein Schneider
• Ernst Ludwig - A German man who befriends Cliff when he arrives in Berlin
• Fraulein Kost - A prostitute who rents in Fraulein Schneider's boarding house
• Rosie, LuLu, Frenchy, Texas, Fritzy, and Helga - Girls who perform alongside Sally at the Kit Kat Klub
• Bobby, Victor, Hans, and Herman - Cabaret boys at the Kit Kat Klub
• The Nazi Youth - A young Nazi boy
• Sailors #1 and #2 - Fraulein Kost's sailors
• Nazi Guard - Ernst's bodyguard at the Kit Kat Klub

Awards and nominations

• Original Broadway production - won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and was nominated for three others (1967)
• Broadway Revival - nominated for Three Drama Desk Awards and three Tony Awards (1987)
• Second Broadway Revival - won four Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, and was nominated for six others. The show won an Astaire Award and three Drama Desk Awards, and was nominated for seven others. It also won a Theatre World award (1998)