#John Kander and Fred Ebb

[aliesafenlock]

Looks like there are some Cabaret fans here, so I found my programme of Roundabout Theatre Company's production I saw many years ago.

This Broadway revival was was based on the 1993 London production, directed by Sam Mendes, and performed at Club 54!

The main cast were:

Alan Cumming as the Emcee

Natasha Richardson as Sally Bowles

John Benjamin Hickey as Cliff Bradshaw

Mary Louise Wilson as Fräulein Schneider

Ron Rifkin as Herr Schultz

[doyouknowthismusical]

[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this do you prefer?

[operaqueen]

Chita Rivera - Kiss of the Spider Woman

[wh2m]

→ New York, New York on Broadway @ the Broadway red carpet opening covered by The Upcoming

Colton Ryan, Anna Uzele, Lin Manuel Miranda, Jonathan Groff, Zachary James, Victor Garber and Rob Marshall

[glimeres]

2024 Broadway Backwards - Len Cariou and Chip Zien perform It Couldn't Please Me More from the musical Cabaret

[ostrich-riding-cowboy]

I need my fellow sickos to know about Jane Horrocks as Sally Bowles.

[ulrichgebert]

Der habituelle Geburtstagsfilm für Liza, Martin Scorseses unverständlicherweise vielignoriertes musikalisches Bebopsaxophonisten-und-Unterhaltungssängerinnen-passen-einfach-nicht-zueinander-(aber wahrscheinlich liegt es nur daran, daß er so unerträglich ist)-Liebesdrama funktioniert als Motivation, mein Bisher-ungesehene-Scorsese-Filme-Projekt noch etwas voranzutreiben wesentlich besser, als der bisher gesehene zuvor ungesehene.

[unwelcome-ephestion]

I’m currently watching Funny Lady, which is the film sequel to Funny Girl. It’s not regarded as as strong as the original - it certainly lacks the tragic propulsion that gives Funny Girl its magnetism. But it’s good, and has a strong score by, of all people, Kander and Ebb, mixed in with a lot of early 20th century popular songs.

It’s only a film (so far), and just like it lacks Styne and Merrill who composed and wrote lyrics to the original, it also lacks William Wyler, the original director, who is replaced by Herbert Ross, who staged the original film’s musical numbers. Streisand finally agreed to do it after seeing the script, thinking it was more than a half-baked sequel, and she’s right - Fanny feels more mature than the original, like it’s real character development.

It’s an underrated gem, I think! Maybe not a knockout, but Streisand is great, and the Kander and Ebb score is better than most. Fred Ebb in particular finds the maturer, more cynical, sarcastic voice of Brice in his lyrics . It also has pretty much all diegetic music, unlike the original, possibly because in the seven years between the films, musicals were out and music films were in. Streisand does a Brice impression that is much more recognisable as the late era Brice who was captured on film and tv than her early, more innocent years, which most people are unfamiliar with, and it really feels like she’s making an adult performance in the role, and shows her talent for comedy maybe even better than the original. A shame that so many songs are montaged, but Spotify gives you them in full!

This song, I Found A Million Dollar Baby (in a five and ten cent store), sees Barbra absolutely radiant in a top hat and tails, but was also originally written by Harry Warren, Mort Dixon and Billy Rose - the latter one of the characters in Funny Lady!

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She's A Woman ✩ (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1990 Composer Demo) ♪ performed by John Kander & Fred Ebb

[doyouknowthismusical]

[georgefurth]

Happy Valentine's day!

Here's a very happy and loving song cut from The Act (Furth, Kander & Ebb)

(Not to be confused with the song Good Thing Going in Furth's later musical, Merrily We Roll Along)

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Which version of this do you prefer?

Further notes:

The film is currently available on DVD. I don't know that there's any "official" sources to stream it right now.

The musical is licensable through Concord, through whom you can also separately buy the script. There is a cast recording. I believe there is also a bootleg recording of the show that is relatively easy to track down. There will be an upcoming film adaptation of the stage musical; according to Wikipedia, it just wrapped filming last month.

[filosofablogger]

♫ New York, New York ♫ (Redux)

No particular reason for this redux other than as I scrolled through the archives, it caught my eye and I suddenly wanted to hear it again! Sometimes a bit of nostalgia isn’t a bad thing, y’know?  My first 18 years were spent between San Francisco and New York, with a few other locales thrown in for fun … my father was what’s known as a “troubleshooter”, which took us back and forth, here and…

[caroleditosti]

'New York, New York' is a Wow, Manhattanhenge is Here.

'New York, New York' is a love letter to New York City from then to now.

Jim Borstelmann in New York, New York (courtesy of Paul Kolnik) Inspired by the titular MGM motion picture written by Earl M. Rauch, the musical New York, New York at the St. James Theatre is an ambitious, updated adaptation from uneven source material. Its spectacular production values guided by the prodigious five-time Tony winner, Susan Stroman, who does double duty with direction and…