Making of the Great Broadway Musical Mega-Hits: Cabaret

ISBN10:	0889626510
ISBN13:	9780889626515
Publication Date:	20100101
Publisher:	Midpoint Trade Books
Binding:	Paperback

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In his book Harold Prince and the American Musical Theater, Foster Hirsch recalls a woman who left the opening-night performance of Cabaret in Wilmington, Delaware, exclaiming: It is more than a musical! The exclamation suggests that the Broadway show had gone beyond European ethnicity and history on its way to success. And there is truth behind the suggestion. Even on the mere surface, Cabaret is not just a musical. The Berlin of the Third Reich, diluted for Broadway audiences, provides a symbolic edge that tips the show into a realm of fascinating metaphor.