Life is a Cabaret
Did you know that the marvelous movie Cabaret turns 40 this month?
Here’s a little known fact connected to that film: Both your correspondents have, at different times, dressed up as Sally Bowles. Hot pants and all.
The film, directed by Bob Fosse was famously based on the musical that was adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s brilliant The Berlin Stories, which My Friends House (this half) only got around to reading last year. As you probably know, it’s set in 1931 at the tail end of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis, and it centres around boho American singer Sally (she’s English in the book) and propa Englishman Brian Roberts, who live in the same apartment. Cabaret clubs in Berlin today by the way, are almost as barking as the Kit Kat Klub depicted in the film.
Here are some snazzy posters of the movie, which get weirder as you scroll down…
Definitely worth sticking on your Love Film if you’ve yet to see it or it’s been a while since you have. Happy 40th Cabaret.
Images from here.
Love love love it. Saw it in New York in Studio 54 years ago and the sets were amazing, the costumes were amazing, Alan Cumming was amazing, Studio 54 was amazing, the poster of her face in the swastika is not amazing it is creepy and finally the main query is, were your dress up costumes amazing?
PS I can’t believe you saw that production, I read about it online and thought it sounded amazing.
Yes they were! And they were made by my other blogging half. When I said to her I was thinking of going to a party as Liza from Cabaret she amazed me by producing a whole outfit in a bag. Magic. There has also been a home made Mr T, but that’s for another blog post (maybe another blog), which I hope she might write one day.
Also a big fan! If you love The Berlin Stories, Im sure youd enjoy “The Luminous Life of Lily Aphrodite” by Beatrice Colin, set in a similar era of Berlin. Its a great read. Im going to try out The Berlin Stories for def.