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Café Berlin: A New Musical

The wall fell. We opened. 

As the Berlin Wall falls, rules disappear overnight. A French philosophy student arrives to capture the moment on film, determined to stay outside the frame.

Inside an occupied nightclub in East Berlin, a group of queer artists, punks, and outsiders build something new: a home, a community, a world without permission.

What begins as observation turns into participation as she’s pulled into a year of total freedom, where anything feels possible and nothing is guaranteed to last.

The Team

Café Berlin is a new musical with music by Joseph J. Simeone, lyrics by Joseph J. Simeone and Ethan Kanfer, and book by Joseph J. Simeone and Annaliese Jakimides

Produced by Peter Pileski

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