Word: masteroff
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Book by JOE MASTEROFF Music by JERRY BOCK Lyrics by SHELDON HARNICK
...essences of the perfumes that line the walls of the story-book shop in which the action takes place. Director Josh Rubins has done well to maintain the wistful, delicate flavorings of the play, never allowing the characters to slip into the preciousness or sentimentality towards which Joe Masteroff's book occasionally drifts...
CABARET WAS a watershed of a musical and it is even more of an achievement as a film. Produced by Hal Prince, directed by Joe Masteroff, with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Cabaret appeared on Broadway in 1966 to deliver a telling blow to the old-fashioned Broadway musical where songs served merely as dialogue and the songs cue was king. Ever since Oklahoma' had hit the scene in the forties, musicals were presumed to be merely souped up dramas. Lyrics had to advance the plot and dances were expected to serve some dramatic function. Cabaret...