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QUESTION Is there any link between the Kit Kat chocolate bar and the Kit Kat Klub featured in Cabaret?
No. It’s tempting to think so because Rowntree launched the Kit Kat in 1935 and Christopher Isherwood’s novel Goodbye To Berlin, on which the musical Cabaret was based, appeared in 1939. However, Isherwood named his ‘boys’ club’ just off the Tauentzienstrasse The Lady Windermere.
It wasn’t until 1966 it became the Kit Kat Klub when Joe Masteroff wrote the book for Kander and Ebb’s musical, which was in turn adapted into a film starring Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles.
Cabaret was written as a novel in 1935 and was turned into a musical in 1939 before being made into a film starring Liza Minnelli (pictured) as Sally Bowles
It wasn’t until 1966 when it became the Kit Kat Klub- in the original novel Christopher Isherwood named his ‘boys’ club’ just off the Tauentzienstrasse The Lady Windermere.
There is a theory that Masteroff named it the Kit Kat Klub because the initials were KKK and the Nazi-era musical was written during the height of the civil rights movement. Kit Kat bars weren’t introduced to the United States until the 1970s.
Katie Williams, Warminster, Wilts.
