I will never understand how musicals with hundreds of prancing men do not become blockbusters.
I played Joel Grey’s character “MC” in my college’s production of “Cabaret” and had the most fun I’ve ever had in playing community theater. It was a role where there were basically no limits on my performance and I could chew up the stage and the scenery to my heart’s content.
I am not a fan of musicals, but this film is one of my top 50 films. Perhaps its that period of the loose morals Weimar Republic and the “strict” authoritarians of the up and coming National Socialists that set the scene in Berlin that drags me in. Liza’s performance of course was great. I knew a great many girls that were like her-—tossing aside the Mid-America morality once free of mummy and daddy, (though not their money, right?)
Perhaps as explained in the review that all the musical numbers were done in context of the Kit Kat Klub that makes it not a musical, but a period piece with music. I dunno.
Minnelli was hot back then.
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