The Kit Kat Club.

The Kit Kat club was the club that bought all the main characters together. Sally and Christopher bonded at the Kit Kat club. Its a place for the young and wild, the pleasure seekers and the exhibitionists. Sally is very much the heart of the club. She is the dark, mysterious act that a lot of the customers wait patiently to watch. 

The first interpretation of The Kit Kat club  was in Christopher Isherwoods novel "Goodbye To Berlin".  "An arty informal bar" "The walls were covered with sketches on menu-cards,caricatures and signed theatrical photographs". From this I can imagine the club being rather dirty looking. I can imagine it being rather confined, the air being thick. The room being filled with sweaty pleasure seekers. Men with wives and families.I visualize men and women of high class to be the voyeuristic viewers. Women with husbands looking to explore their sexuality. Even though in the books description it does not state that the room is smokey. I can imagine the room to be thick with smoke as the audience would of been smoking in the club. I imagine the tables to be rather close together and a long bar against the back wall, which I visualize to be extremely busy. I imagine the floor to be sticky from spilt alcohol. 

The script introduces The Kit Kat club in a different way. In the script it is New years eve and Cliff meets Sally in the club. It describes the club in greater detail. The club has telephones in it. It's new years eve in the club. The girls and Sally all come out singing and dancing. The room is full of numbered tables with 1920s style telephones on them. On the numbered tables are men waiting to voyeur on their prey (the women or men) whatever tickles their fancy. The room is covered in colorful confetti and shiny balloons and paper hats. It's almost set up like a childs party. From this I can tell its set up for a celebration. Above the tables there is a spiral staircase heading towards the tables. There is a stage at the front of the room, the stage has a spotlight pointing towards it. As there is a spotlight on I am guessing the room is dark and is full of hungry men waiting eagerly to see what's on offer. There is a bar full of alcohol situated in the room to fuel the customers. 

Although in the scene I have chosen to analysis does not describe the whole setting in great extent. Just from the little description given of the room I can already visualize how the room looks little details like the curtains the shape of the table the type of customers. I can imagine the room being thick with cigarette smoke, wax dripping from lit candles out of a wine bottle. I could go on for days. The script is really helping me to picture the scene in greater details from my view not a director of a film which shapes the view.

In the Bob Fosse interpretation the club looks very dramatic much different to the book. The club does not look that quirky. The club looks extremely dramatic the lighting the costume everything. Sally looks extremely doll like. Her makeup is excessively heavy. Sally is wearing electric blue eyes. Her brows are thin and round. Her brows look a though they have been blocked out. Her lips are a strong red, her skin holds a pale complexion. Sally is wearing a bowler hat on her head and her hair is styled in a short bob. The Kit Kat girls all look sort of dead like corpses the makeup and hair is extremely dramatic making it look like a theatrical performance.

Looking at all of the different settings and descriptions of the club has made me get a batter idea of how the atmosphere would of been. Seeing how Sally has been portrayed in the book, script and film has given me an insight of how my Sally should initially look. From this I can start my design process.