

With Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Grey), Best Director (Fosse), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Original Song Score and Adaptation, and Best Film Editing, Cabaret holds the record for most Oscars earned by a film not honored for Best Picture. The film also brought Minnelli, daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, her own first chance to sing on screen, and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Īfter the box-office failure of his 1969 film version of Sweet Charity, Fosse bounced back with Cabaret in 1972, a year that made him one of the most honored working directors in Hollywood. : 609 All of them take place inside the club, : 609 with one exception: " Tomorrow Belongs to Me", the only song sung by neither the Master of Ceremonies nor Sally Bowles. In the traditional manner of musical theater, most major characters in the stage version sing to express their emotions and advance the plot in the film, however, the musical numbers are entirely diegetic. : 609 Multiple numbers from the stage score were used for the film, which also featured three other songs by Kander and Ebb, including two written for the adaptation. Set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the presence of the growing Nazi Party, the film is loosely based on the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret by Kander and Ebb, which was adapted from Christopher Isherwood's semi-autobiographical novel The Berlin Stories (1945) as well as John Van Druten's 1951 play I Am a Camera, which was itself adapted from Isherwood's novel.

God only knows what the neighbors think I run-a BATTLESHIP?'įraulein Kost: 'Good evening, Fraulein Schneider.Cabaret is a 1972 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse, and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. Your children have waited to see! The morning will come when the world is mine! Tomorrow belongs to ME!'įraulein Schneider: 'All day, sailors in, out, in, out. Herr Schultz:'At last, someone who cares if I am foolish!'įraulein Kost, Herr Ludwig, the Company: 'Oh Fatherland, Fatherland, show us the sign. And she's very very very very very very bad!' Įmcee, Lulu, Bobby 'Beedle dee dee dee! Two Ladies!' I am like a father to her! So when she's bad. But she's a very cunning linguist!' -EmceeĮmcee: 'Oh, Fritzie! Would you stop that? Already this week we have lost two waiters, a table, and three bottles of champagne up there like this!'Įmcee: 'Helga is the baby.

Just kidding.'Įmcee: 'Yes, Texas is from AMERICA! Mmmhmm.

Then I grew up and realized I was mysterious and fascinating'Įmcee: 'Rosie is so called because of the color of her cheeks!' Įmcee: 'Oh, you like Lulu, huh? Yeah? Well too bad! So does Rosie!'Įmcee 'You know, I like to order Frenchie on her side. Sally Bowles: 'I used to pretend I was someone quite mysterious and fascinating. Sally Bowles: 'You can tell my papa, that's alright, cause he comes in here every night, but don't tell Mama what you saw!' - Sally Bowles If it wasn't to be that he ever would see the abundance of me, So what? The 1966 Broadway production became a hit, inspiring numerous subsequent productions in London and New York, as well as the 1972 film by the same name.ĭialogue Fraulein Schneider: 'When I had a man, my figure was dumpy and fat.So what?' - Fraulein Schneider Variant lyric: When I had a man, my figure was boyish and flat, so what? Through all of our years he was so disappointed in that, so what? Now I have what he missed and my bosom is full, But he lies in a churchyard plot. Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.
