Word: masteroff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...musical of all time. Hal Prince's fluid, expressionistic staging has been so widely imitated that even its slyest devices seem cliched. Although the show's political anthems and music- hall satires throb with emotion, its love ballads are mostly lame -- a weakness that has been heightened by Joe Masteroff's miscalculated rewrite of his own book. Clifford (Gregg Edelman), the American novelist who arrives in Berlin as the Nazis are coming to power and through whom the story is told, is now unmistakably homosexual. His affair with the hoydenish singer Sally Bowles (Alyson Reed) has no chance of changing...