The performance venue might be a pub , a casino , a hotel , a restaurant , or a nightclub [ 1 ] with a stage for performances.
The audience, often dining or drinking, does not typically dance but usually sits at tables. Performances are usually introduced by a master of ceremonies M. The entertainment, as performed by an ensemble of actors and according to its European origins, is often but not always oriented towards adult audiences and of a clearly underground nature. In the United States, striptease , burlesque , drag shows , or a solo vocalist with a pianist, as well as the venues which offer this entertainment, are often advertised as cabarets.
The term originally came from Picard language or Walloon language words camberete or cambret for a small room 12th century.
The first printed use of the word kaberet is found in a document from in Tournai. The term was used since the 13th century in Middle Dutch to mean an inexpensive inn or restaurant caberet , cabret. The word cambret , itself probably derived from an earlier form of chambrette , little room, or from the Norman French chamber meaning tavern, itself derived from the Late Latin word camera meaning an arched roof.
Cabarets had appeared in Paris by at least the late 15th century. They were distinguished from taverns because they served food as well as wine, the table was covered with a cloth, and the price was charged by the plate, not the mug.
