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Life is a cabaret, old chum! Come to the cabaret!
"Life is a cabaret, old chum! Come to the CA-BA-RET!" crows Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) in the brightly lit Kit Kat Club. Cabaret. The word calls out, "Celebration!". And this film is just that: a celebration of a devinely decadent era. In 1931 Berlin, a larger-than-life singer whose motto "Life is a cabaret, ol' chum!" carries her through the darkly decadent days of pre-Nazism. Meeting a young bisexual English writer, she encounters many adventures with him along for a wild ride. Although they are worlds apart, the two begin a passionate love affair... while the Nazis begin their rampage on Germany. Many musical sequences in the picture, taking place at the tawdry Kit Kat Club, provide some of the greatest songs and savory entertainment ever put on the screen. Liza Minnelli, in a much deserved Oscar-winning role, is thrilling in all of her solo numbers: in "Mein Herr", she dances with a vivacious electricity, singing lustily, "And though I used to care/ I need the open air/ You're better off without me, Mein Herr!". In "Maybe This Time", she passionately sings about the love that will come to her... maybe this time. And in the picture's title tune, "Cabaret", Liza belts out the best song of a fabulous score: "What good is sitting alone in your room?/ Come hear the music play/ Life is a cabaret, old chum!/ Come to the cabaret!". Michael York does just fine as her writer friend, and Joel Grey won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a rather unsettling "Master of Ceremonies": "Wilkommen, bienvenu, velcome! In cabaret, undt, cabaret, undt, CABARET!" The marvelous, Oscar-winning cinematography, sound and direction by Bob Fosse create a highly stylized musical drama that you won't want to miss. Come to the "Cabaret", old chum!

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Life In the Cabaret
"Cabaret" is one of the best releases of 1972, living up to "The Godfather". It won eight Oscars, including Best Director. Its combination of glitz, glamour, sex, ulginess, and turmoil wonderfully express themselves in the movie. It offers a unique musical taste not often seen. The plot was written wonderfully. They always offer surprise interest scenes when the audience least expects it. The glamour in the Kit Kat Klub switching to the Nazi troop march symbolize such surprise. Such hardtimes are expressed accurately as it happened when Hitler began taking over Germany. Daring sex scenes and sex talk offer further respect to the crew. This places them ahead of their time. Some may say "Cabaret" is also ahead of modern day time. The costume designs were craften beautifully. The drag queens resemble real-life women, a difficult task to master. Every piece of clothing accurately desplicts 1930's german styles, in and out of the cabaret. All the songs were written brilliantly. Liza Minelli deserved her Oscar win for Best Actress for her role as a greedy cabaret performer Sally Bowles. Her singing is unforgettable. Amazingly, she was only 24. Michael York's role as a man who converts to heterosexuality with a relationship with Bowles is also wonderful. He was wrongfully dissed for the Oscar nomination for Best Actor. All other performances are also brilliant, major or minor. "Cabaret" is a great musical for those looking for something unique. It still contains the attraction spark enflamed 31 years ago. This will leave many audiences entertained for many more years.

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THE BEST
As for musical-drama concerned... THIS IS IT! The producers of Chicago should have seen this(indeed they did - every major moment in that film is "stolen" from Cabaret) and put REAL musical stars in the film.

When u have Joel and Liza u are not let down... I give flowergreetings to the entire cast and crew... The filmversion of Cabaret has a lot of "new songs"(Maybe This Time, Mein Herr, The Money Song) and the plot follows the 1955-movie "I AM A CAMERA" more than the stage musical. Since then; the Liza-songs have found themselves in numerous revivals of this stageplay since this 1972-masterpiece. The film is still frightening and raw......Trivia: The scene in which Liza meets Marisa they talk about diseases... On video, here in Europe at least, that was cut....