The Making of Cabaret

Like many college papers, it is heavy handed, full of all the appropriate 'citings' It tries to be more than it is - using SAT vocabulary, the writing is dense and often repeats itself Was hoping for more

Great

Really tears apart each production to see how it is evolved over the years. Well worth the read if you are a Cabaret aficionado.

Fantastic inside look at the production of Cabaret. This is a must read for a fan of the show.

Great updated edition.

This book is a must for anyone involved in staging cabaret. I designed costumes for this and found it very helpful for character profiles and keeping the costumes true to the original. Excellent

In depth review and research, well written and very entertaining.

Fascinating!

When a book claims Hal Prince directed Assassins and Flora the Red Menace, that Richard Rodgers and Alan Jay Lerner created On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (while, bizarrely, acknowledging that Burton Lane wrote the music--the implication being that Rodgers helped write the book or something; ugh, Rodgers and Lerner tried to collaborate on that show when it was called I Picked a Daisy but they couldn't work together and Rodgers had nothing to do with the show as it came to Broadway). Somehow, the author thinks Tom O'Horgan was staging musicals on Broadway in the mid-sixties, and he puts O'Horgon in the same category as Bob Fosse and Gower Champion, despite O'Horgan not being a choreographer-director, and of course of a completely different kind of theater that either of those two...he didn't stage a Broadway show until late 1968. There's an odd flub when the author refers to "Madam Rose" by which he means the character in Gypsy often referred to as Mama Rose, though in fact the character is simply named Rose. The book gives long bios on just about everyone associated with the various productions, which at times it feels like padding. Between false info, dull explication and a sort of aimless narrative, I don't think the book has much to recommend it.

Los amantes de este musical encontrarán en este libro la historia -muy completa- de sus gestación. Desde el nacimiento de la idea hasta información sobre las últimas producciones.

Like many college papers, it is heavy handed, full of all the appropriate 'citings'It tries to be more than it is - using SAT vocabulary, the writing is dense and often repeats itselfWas hoping for more

Really tears apart each production to see how it is evolved over the years. Well worth the read if you are a Cabaret aficionado.

When a book claims Hal Prince directed Assassins and Flora the Red Menace, that Richard Rodgers and Alan Jay Lerner created On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (while, bizarrely, acknowledging that Burton Lane wrote the music--the implication being that Rodgers helped write the book or something; ugh, Rodgers and Lerner tried to collaborate on that show when it was called I Picked a Daisy but they couldn't work together and Rodgers had nothing to do with the show as it came to Broadway). Somehow, the author thinks Tom O'Horgan was staging musicals on Broadway in the mid-sixties, and he puts O'Horgon in the same category as Bob Fosse and Gower Champion, despite O'Horgan not being a choreographer-director, and of course of a completely different kind of theater that either of those two...he didn't stage a Broadway show until late 1968. There's an odd flub when the author refers to "Madam Rose" by which he means the character in Gypsy often referred to as Mama Rose, though in fact the character is simply named Rose.The book gives long bios on just about everyone associated with the various productions, which at times it feels like padding. Between false info, dull explication and a sort of aimless narrative, I don't think the book has much to recommend it.

Los amantes de este musical encontrarán en este libro la historia -muy completa- de sus gestación. Desde el nacimiento de la idea hasta información sobre las últimas producciones.