reviews of cabaret

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A handy and engaging chronicle, this book is the most detailed production history to date of the original Broadway version of Cabaret, showing how the show evolved from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories, into John van Druten's stage play, a British film adaptation, and then the Broadway musical, conceived and directed by Harold Prince as an early concept musical. With nearly 40 illustrations, full cast credits, and a bibliography, The Making of Cabaret will appeal to musical theatre aficionados, theatre specialists, and students and performers of musical theatre.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 2nd edition (April 20, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199732507
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199732500
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
Reviewer: johnkenrick
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent overview
Review: A fine comparison of the various major productions of Cabaret from 1966 through the early 2000s. Brought back a lot of memories.

Reviewer: Jeff Schiff
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Deep dive into Cabaret
Review: Really tears apart each production to see how it is evolved over the years. Well worth the read if you are a Cabaret aficionado.

Reviewer: Julie S
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: Fantastic inside look at the production of Cabaret. This is a must read for a fan of the show.

Reviewer: Biglickbrewer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: In depth review and research, well written and very entertaining.

Reviewer: Tom Smith
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Five Stars
Review: Fascinating!

Reviewer: Rugby8
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: ....more like a college thesis
Review: 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

Reviewer: Christopher
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Can you at least get the basic facts right?
Review: 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.

Reviewer: ROY FREEMAN
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great

Reviewer: Cliente Kindle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 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.