Word: druten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most musicals, the show has many fathers. Christopher Isherwood wrote the plot first as a novella, Goodbye to Berlin. John van Druten adapted it in the 1951 Broadway hit I Am a Camera, with Julie Harris playing Heroine Sally Bowles, a girl as wispy, wayward and vulnerable as the smoke at the end of her jaunty cigarette holder. A still different set of foster parents put their mark on Cabaret. It is a montage of the bloatedly satiric cartoons of George...
...book has been lost in transit. The "I" of Isherwood's Berlin camera was the author himself, intelligent, sentient, an amused and ironic observer of a society in vortex. The "I" (Bert Convy) of Cabaret is a gaping boy tourist with a typewriter. In the Isherwood-Van Druten versions, Sally Bowles focused the disorder around her in personal disorientation, sex-sipped sorrow, pleasure-bent pain. The part is beyond the technique and temperament of Jill Haworth. Sally is a mixture of waif and wanton, gin and gallantry; Actress Haworth is a tin-tongued ingenue...
Based on John Van Druten's play, I Am A Camera (based in turn on a series of stories by Christopher Isherwood), Cabaret is set in the Berlin of 1930, where a naive young American novelist meets up and shacks up with a degenerate English cabaret girl. Then their landlady gets engaged to a Jewish widower living in another apartment in the same building...
...unifying forces are the theme "man, woman and the devil," and score and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, who did Fiddler on the Roof. A final derivative musical is Cabaret, which in earlier incarnations was Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories and the John van Druten drama I Am a Camera. With Jill Haworth in the old Julie Harris role, it is already one of the season's hottest tickets, not to mention the highest: $12 orchestra...