Cabaret is as close to perfection as musical theater can get and currently Alan Cumming is back at Studio 54-cum-Kit Kat Klub in his career-making role as the androgynous, serpentine Emcee.
One of the non-stop hit songs is, of course, a metaphor: Life is a cabaret.
The title of the non-musical adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's wonderful Berlin Stories, was inspired by this metaphoric line: "I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."
Here's a link to my review of the current revival:
www.curtainup.com/cabaret14.html
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