CABARET
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CABARET is one of the most successful musicals of all time. It
features music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, book by Joe
Masteroff, based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by
Christopher Isherwood. The musical features an array of songs,
including: Willkommen, Mein Herr, Two Ladies, Money & If You Could See
Her.
A musical with a rich history...
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In film:
Cabaret is a 1972 American musical period drama film directed by Bob
Fosse and written for the screen by Jay Presson Allen. It stars Liza
Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, Fritz Wepper
and Joel Grey.
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On stage:
Cabaret is a 1966 musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred
Ebb, and book by Joe Masteroff. The musical was based on John Van
Druten's 1951 play I Am a Camera which was adapted from Goodbye to
Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel by Anglo-American writer
Christopher Isherwood which drew upon his experiences in the
poverty-stricken Weimar Republic and his intimate friendship with
nineteen-year-old cabaret singer Jean Ross.
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Differences Between Stage & Film:
The film significantly differs from the Broadway musical. In the
stage version, Sally is English (as she was in Isherwood's Goodbye to
Berlin). In the film adaptation, she is American. Cliff Bradshaw was
renamed Brian Roberts and made British (as was Isherwood, upon whom
the character was based), rather than American as in the stage
version. The characters and plotlines involving Fritz, Natalia and Max
were pulled from I Am a Camera and did not appear in the stage
production of Cabaret (or in Goodbye to Berlin). The most significant
change involves the excision of the two main characters: Fraulein
Schneider, who runs a boarding house, and her love interest, Herr
Schultz, a German grocer. Their doomed romance plot, and the
consequences of a Gentile falling in love with a Jew during the rise
of antisemitism, was cut.
CABARET is currently showing at London's Kit Kat Club
