What to expect
The evening, step by step
From arriving on Köthener Straße to the company's final bow, here is the order the night follows.
See dates on GetYourGuide ↗The shape of the night
| Stage | What happens |
|---|---|
| Arrival | Find your seat in Showbühne Berlin's single auditorium before the room fills. |
| Welcome | The compere for your date opens the evening. |
| The bill | A roughly two-hour run of group numbers, solos and duets. |
| Finale | The full company returns for a closing number. |
Before you arrive
Once GetYourGuide confirms your date, your ticket and any timing details it sends are the ones to follow — this guide describes the shape of the evening in general, not a guaranteed running order for your specific night. Showbühne Berlin sits directly at Potsdamer Platz, so arriving by public transport rather than driving is usually the simpler option in central Berlin traffic.
Finding your seat
The venue is one auditorium rather than a sprawling multi-room complex, so once you're through the door, finding your seat should be straightforward. Arrive with a little time in hand rather than right at the advertised start — a compere and cast working through a bill of short numbers tends to start close to on time, since there isn't a long single piece to delay for latecomers.
The welcome
The compere for your date — Gisela Kloppke on German-hosted nights, comedian Elena Gabrielle on English-hosted nights — opens the evening and sets up what's coming. This is also usually where you get a first sense of how the night will be hosted: comedy-led, audience-facing, and built to hold the room together between the cast's numbers rather than narrate a single storyline.
The bill itself
The Showgirls of Burlesque runs as a sequence of numbers — group pieces, a featured solo from Lola La Tease, at least one duet, and a recurring giant-champagne-glass set piece — rather than one continuous show. That structure is common to cabaret bills generally: it lets the compere reset the room between contrasting numbers instead of carrying one narrative arc for two hours.
Picking a German or English night
Performances run in German, hosted by Gisela Kloppke, or in English, hosted by comedian Elena Gabrielle, depending on the date. Since the compere carries much of the evening between numbers, checking which language your date runs makes more difference to how much you follow than any seating choice would.
After the finale
The evening closes with the full cast on stage together. Because Showbühne Berlin is one room, the crowd leaving tends to move through the same entrance you came in by, so allow a few minutes to file out rather than expecting an instant exit, especially on a fuller night.