Book Vs Movie: "Cabaret" (1972) Directed by Bob Fosse

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Book Vs Movie: “Cabaret”</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Backstory Behind One of the Most Popular Musicals of All Time</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>“Musicals in March”</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/60822/cabaret_2.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="412" /></strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Margos are adhering to the motto “life is a cabaret!” this week with our deep dive into a musical that is based on a book about Berlin’s underground night scene in the 1930s by</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Isherwood"><strong>Christopher Isherwood</strong></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(</span><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_to_Berlin"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Goodbye to Berlin</span></em></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.) </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From there it became a Broadway play by</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Van_Druten"><strong>John van Druten</strong></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">--</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Camera_(film)"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">I Am a Camera</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">in the early 1950s with a movie starring</span> <strong>Julie Harris</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">that gives new meaning to the word dull! </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the mid-1960s Broadway legends,</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kander"><strong>John Kander</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ebb"><strong>Fred Ebb</strong></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(</span><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Chicago</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">) created the book and music for</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cabaret</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 4