"Cabaret (1972 film) Cabaret is a 1972 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse, and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, and Joel Grey. Situated in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the presence of the growing Nazi Party, the film is loosely based on the 1966 Broadway musical ""Cabaret"" by Kander and Ebb, which was adapted from the novel ""The Berlin Stories / Goodbye to Berlin"" (1939) by Christopher Isherwood and the 1951 play ""I Am a Camera"" adapted from the same book. Only a few numbers from the stage score were used for the film; Kander"
"The Fourposter The Fourposter is a 1951 play written by Jan de Hartog. The two-character story spans thirty-five years, from 1890 to 1925, as it focuses on the trials and tribulations, laughters and sorrows, and hopes and disappointments experienced by Agnes and Michael throughout their marriage. The set consists solely of their bedroom, dominated by the large fourposter bed in the center of the room. Its simple set and small cast have made it a popular choice for amateur theatrical groups. Among the couple's milestones are the consummation of their marriage, the birth of their first child, Michael's success as"
"Cabaret (Cabaret song) ""Cabaret"" is the title song from the 1966 musical of the same name. It is sung by the character Sally Bowles. The music was composed by John Kander and the lyrics by Fred Ebb. In the musical, the song is performed by the character Sally Bowles in a night club setting in Nazi Germany in 1931. Her lover has told her that he is taking her back to America so that they can raise their baby together in safety. Sally protests as she thinks their life in Berlin is wonderful and she states politics have nothing to"
"Kabarett Kabarett (; from French ""cabaret"" = tavern) is satirical revue, a form of cabaret which developed in France by Rodolphe Salis in 1881 as the ""cabaret artistique"". It was named Le Chat Noir and was centered on political events and satire. It later inspired creation of Kabarett venues in Germany from 1901, with the creation of Berlin's Überbrettl venue and in Austria with the creation of the Jung-Wiener Theater zum lieben Augustin housed in the Theater an der Wien. By the Weimar era in the mid-1920s it was characterized by political satire and gallows humor. It shared the characteristic"
"again. The play was adapted for Australian TV in 1964. In 1966, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt adapted the play for their musical ""I Do! I Do!"". The Fourposter The Fourposter is a 1951 play written by Jan de Hartog. The two-character story spans thirty-five years, from 1890 to 1925, as it focuses on the trials and tribulations, laughters and sorrows, and hopes and disappointments experienced by Agnes and Michael throughout their marriage. The set consists solely of their bedroom, dominated by the large fourposter bed in the center of the room. Its simple set and small cast have made"
"Sally Bowles Sally Bowles () is a fictional cabaret singer created by English-American novelist Christopher Isherwood. She originally appeared in Isherwood's 1937 novella ""Sally Bowles"" published by Hogarth Press. The story was later republished in the novel ""Goodbye to Berlin"". Sally is a central character in the 1951 John Van Druten stage play ""I Am a Camera"", the 1955 film of the same name, the 1966 musical stage adaptation ""Cabaret"" and the 1972 film adaptation of the musical. In 1979, critic Howard Moss of ""The New Yorker"" noted the peculiar resiliency of the character: ""It is almost fifty years since"
"The Little Cafe (play) The Little Cafe (French:Le petit café) is a French comedy play written by Tristan Bernard which was first performed in 1911. An English-language musical version ""The Little Cafe"" was successfully staged in the United States in 1913. Albert Loriflan, a waiter in a Paris cafe, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money from a wealthy relative. His unscrupulous boss, Philibert, refuses to release him from his long-term contract in the hope that Albert will buy him off with a large payment. But Albert refuses, and continues to work at the cafe even though he is now"
"Cabaret Concert Theatre The Cabaret Concert Theatre was a small cellar café/cabaret, located in the Silverlake district of Central Los Angeles, California. It operated between 1950 and 1961. It was created by dancer Miriam Schiller with the help of a group of young actors and dancers who wanted a place to showcase their talent, the 100 seat theatre became a popular nightspot among television and film producers, talent scouts, agents and celebrities, who came to eat, drink and enjoy a wide variety of sophisticated revues, plays and concerts. The long-running ""Billy Barnes Revue"" ran for two years before transferring to"
"festival, ""Quad"" was programmed because of its strong affinity with the music of contemporary composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Quad (play) Quad is a television play by Samuel Beckett, written and first produced and broadcast in 1981. It first appeared in print in 1984 (Faber and Faber) where the work is described as ""[a] piece for four players, light and percussion"" and has also been called a ""ballet for four people."" It consists of four actors dressed in robes, hunched and silently walking around and diagonally across a square stage in fixed patterns, alternately entering and exiting. Each"
"the Cambridge Theatre, London, on 7 July 1950, where it ran for 211 performances until 6 January 1951. The cast included Pat Kirkwood, Sylvia Cecil, Graham Payn, Jean Carson and Myles Eason. Mantovani was the musical director. Stage and costume designs were by Gladys Calthrop. Despite its modest run, ""Ace of Clubs"" contained several songs that survived independently, in Coward's later cabaret acts and elsewhere, including ""Sail Away"" and ""I Like America."" A CD of the original London cast recording was released in 2004. Benny runs the Soho nightclub ""The Ace of Clubs"" for the owner, Rita. Felix, the compère,"
"sources Sally Bowles Sally Bowles () is a fictional cabaret singer created by English-American novelist Christopher Isherwood. She originally appeared in Isherwood's 1937 novella ""Sally Bowles"" published by Hogarth Press. The story was later republished in the novel ""Goodbye to Berlin"". Sally is a central character in the 1951 John Van Druten stage play ""I Am a Camera"", the 1955 film of the same name, the 1966 musical stage adaptation ""Cabaret"" and the 1972 film adaptation of the musical. In 1979, critic Howard Moss of ""The New Yorker"" noted the peculiar resiliency of the character: ""It is almost fifty years"
"ratings. Long overshadowed by ""Cabaret"", the 1966 stage and 1972 film adaptation of the same source material, contemporary critics have noted the historic interest of this earlier presentation. In contemporary London, Christopher Isherwood attends a literary party for the launch of a memoir, the author of which he is surprised to learn is Sally Bowles. This knowledge sparks a reverie, and the film flashes back to Berlin, New Year's Eve 1931. Broke and frustrated with his writing, Christopher plans to spend the night in, but his would-be gigolo friend Fritz insists they go to a night club to see Fritz's"
"of the musical ""Cats"" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, first produced in London's West End in 1981 and opening on Broadway the following year. Eliot regarded ""Four Quartets"" as his masterpiece, and it is the work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It consists of four long poems, each first published separately: ""Burnt Norton"" (1936), ""East Coker"" (1940), ""The Dry Salvages"" (1941) and ""Little Gidding"" (1942). Each has five sections. Although they resist easy characterisation, each poem includes meditations on the nature of time in some important respect—theological, historical, physical—and its relation to the human condition."
"Quad (play) Quad is a television play by Samuel Beckett, written and first produced and broadcast in 1981. It first appeared in print in 1984 (Faber and Faber) where the work is described as ""[a] piece for four players, light and percussion"" and has also been called a ""ballet for four people."" It consists of four actors dressed in robes, hunched and silently walking around and diagonally across a square stage in fixed patterns, alternately entering and exiting. Each actor wears a distinct colored robe (white, red, blue, yellow), and is accompanied by a distinct percussion instrument (""leitmotif""). The actors"
"the ""Cancan"". The ""Cancan"" first appeared in the working-class ballrooms of Montparnasse in Paris in around 1830. It was a more lively version of the Galop, a dance in quick 2/4 time, which often featured as the final figure in the Quadrille. ""Cabaret"" is a typical form of French musical entertainment featuring chanson, music, dance, comedy and spectacles. The audience usually sits at tables, often dining or drinking, and performances are sometimes introduced by a master of ceremonies. The first cabaret was opened in 1881 in Montmartre, Paris, by Rodolphe Salis and was called ""Le Chat Noir"" (The Black Cat)."
"and made to spread over forty minutes. When the sketch was playing my interest was sustained. But the sequences were so brief and the intervening music – though good in its proper place – so prolonged that my attention wandered. Much better to have treated the piece as the short sketch it really was."" ""The Guardian""'s unnamed radio critic reviewed the first performance of the play in the edition of 3 November 1937 when he said, ""Since the play took place in a cabaret and the cabaret was given a full and overflowing part with lyrics and music, and more"
"The Cabaret Girl The Cabaret Girl is a musical comedy in three acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by George Grossmith, Jr. and P. G. Wodehouse. It was produced by Grossmith and J. A. E. Malone at the Winter Garden Theatre in London's West End in September 1922 and featured Dorothy Dickson, Grossmith, Geoffrey Gwyther, and Norman Griffin (later replaced by Leslie Henson) in the leading roles. The first performance was originally scheduled for Thursday, 14 September 1922, with Henson in a leading role, but he fell ill on the morning of the scheduled opening, which"
"to 1961. She also designed the costumes for and danced in the Jerome Robbins' controversial ballet ""The Cage"" (1951) and played Robbins' wife in ""Tyl Eulenspiegel"" (1951). She appeared in many successful Balanchine ballets including ""The Four Temperaments"" (1946); ""Serenade"", ""Apollo"", ""Symphony in C"" (1946); ""Swan Lake"" (pas de quatre) (1951); ""Concerto Barocco"", ""The Nutcracker"" (1954); ""Ivesiana"" (1954); ""Agon"" (1957); and ""The Figure in the Carpet"" (1961). Sobotka also danced in James Waring's company and for major American choreographers and designed costumes for works by Paul Taylor, Erick Hawkins, and John Taras. She danced on Broadway in the musicals ""Sadie"
"Jeu de cartes (Balanchine) Jeu de cartes (Card Game) is a ballet in three ""deals"" by Igor Stravinsky composed in 1936–37, with libretto by the composer in collaboration with M. Malaieff (a friend of Stravinsky's eldest son ) and choreography by George Balanchine. The ballet was premiered by the American Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 27 April 1937, with the composer conducting. The European premier was on 13 October 1937 at the Dresden Staatsoper. The New York City Ballet premiere took place on 15 February 1951 under the title ""The Card Game"" at City Center"
"and mistaken identities, and thus making it a greatly hilarious and entertaining play. It invited widespread admiration when staged in New York in 1924. The play was made into a 1984 Hindi movie ""Utsav"", directed by Girish Karnad. The Indian play depicted in the 2001 film ""Moulin Rouge!"" may have been based on ""The Little Clay Cart"". The plays written by Bhāsa were known to historians only through the references of later writers, as the manuscripts themselves were lost. Manuscripts of 13 plays written by him were discovered in an old library in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) in 1913 by the scholar"
"Cabaret (British TV series) Cabaret was a live television variety programme series broadcast by BBC Television 193639 and 1946. It was devised by Dallas Bower, and later developed by Harry Pringle, who also produced 68 episodes. BBC Television began regularly scheduled broadcasts on 2 November 1936; the first episode of ""Cabaret"" was shown on 7 November 1936, and this television series was therefore one of the first ever. No episodes have survived. ""Cabaret"" yielded six spin-off series, among the very earliest of that kind: ""Cabaret Cartoons"" (193639, 1949), ""Cabaret Cruise"" (193739, 1946, 1949), ""Comedy Cabaret"" (193839), ""Eastern Cabaret"" (193839), ""Intimate"
"Carmen (1949 ballet) Carmen is a ballet created by Roland Petit and his company ‘Les Ballets de Paris’ at the Prince's Theatre in London on 21 February 1949, which has entered the repertory of ballet companies in France and around the world. This version is in five scenes and represents a striking admixture of classical ballet, Spanish-style movement, mime, and freshly invented dramatic dance action. The original designs and costumes were by Antoni Clavé. The music is taken from the 1875 opera of the same name by Georges Bizet, arranged and orchestrated by Tommy Desserre. The scenario is based on"
"Carmen (1949 ballet) Carmen is a ballet created by Roland Petit and his company ‘Les Ballets de Paris’ at the Prince's Theatre in London on 21 February 1949, which has entered the repertory of ballet companies in France and around the world. This version is in five scenes and represents a striking admixture of classical ballet, Spanish-style movement, mime, and freshly invented dramatic dance action. The original designs and costumes were by Antoni Clavé. The music is taken from the 1875 opera of the same name by Georges Bizet, arranged and orchestrated by Tommy Desserre. The scenario is based on"
"Celebration. The Cage (ballet) The Cage is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to Stravinsky's ""Concerto in D"" for string orchestra, also known as the ""Basel Concerto"", which he was commissioned to compose on the twentieth anniversary of the chamber orchestra Basler Kammerorchester; it notably shifts between D major and minor. The premiere took place on Sunday, 10 June 1951 at the City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with décor by Jean Rosenthal, costumes by Ruth Sobatka and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. It was danced as part of City Ballet's 1982 Stravinsky"
"Gigi (play) Gigi (1951) is a popular play, written by Anita Loos. It is based on Colette's 1945 novel of the same name, and was produced on Broadway, where it starred Audrey Hepburn in the title role. The play's plot generally follows that of the original story, focusing on a young 19th century Parisian girl being groomed for a career as a courtesan. Gigi lives with her mother and grandmother, and takes lessons at the home of her aunt. Her lessons include social manners, conversation, and personal relationships. The family has significant social connections, and have been great friends with"
"1961 saw the premiere of ""The Fantasticks"" and ""Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"". In 1965, ""Man of La Mancha"" premiered at the Goodspeed Opera House, eventually transferring to Broadway. The ""antithesis of what people expected musicals to be,"" it was nonetheless incredibly popular, and marked the growing undercurrent of rebellion against the traditional musical theatre model. The following year, in 1966, Broadway saw the premiere of ""Cabaret"", by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Directed by Harold Prince, the show centers on the Kit Kat Klub, a seedy nightclub that thrives despite the war raging outside. ""Prince’s"
"Expressionist writers, and the program of sketch comedy and political songs reflected Valetti's belief in the cabaret as an instrument of political and social criticism. The inflation of 1919 to 1923 and the subsequent collapse of the German economy forced Valetti to close Cafe Megalomania. She directed the cabaret ""Rakete"" for a time, then launched another cafe of her own, the ""Rampe"", which hosted the works of revolutionist poet and singer Erich Weinert. Valetti was among the founders of the floating cabaret ""Larifari"" during the late 1920s. In 1928 she performed as Mrs. Peachum in the original cast of Bertolt"
"Chout Chout, Op. 21 (pronounced ""shoot""), is the usual English-language title of a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev, written in two versions between 1915 and 1921. It is sometimes known as ""The Tale of the Buffoon"", or simply ""The Buffoon"". There also exists a symphonic suite from the ballet, Op. 21 bis, which is much more often performed than the full ballet score. The original Russian-language full title was Сказка про шута, семерых шутов перешутившего (""Skazka pro shuta, semerykh shutov pereshutivshevo""), meaning ""The Tale of the Buffoon who Outwits Seven Other Buffoons"". The spelling ""Chout"" is a French romanization of the"
"in 1991. The play is available on CD. The story has been adapted as a television series four times by the BBC. The first of these, in 1951, was in 8 episodes of 30 minutes each. A second adaptation was then produced, which re-used some of the film from the original series but also contained new material with slight cast changes. This had 4 episodes of 60 minutes each. The supporting/background orchestral music used in these early programs was the very lyrical second Dance from the Symphonic Dances by Edvard Grieg. The BBC again revisited the story with an 8-episode"
"""Man of La Mancha"" was adapted from the 1959 television play ""I, Don Quixote"", which supplied most of the dialogue, and the 1954 musical version of ""Peter Pan"" used J. M. Barrie's dialogue. Even the musical ""Show Boat"", which is greatly different from the Edna Ferber novel from which it was adapted, uses some of Ferber's original dialogue, notably during the miscegenation scene. And Lionel Bart's ""Oliver!"" uses chunks of dialogue from Charles Dickens's novel ""Oliver Twist"", although it bills itself as a ""free adaptation"" of the novel. As the originating language of opera, Italian dominated that genre in Europe"
"The Cage (ballet) The Cage is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to Stravinsky's ""Concerto in D"" for string orchestra, also known as the ""Basel Concerto"", which he was commissioned to compose on the twentieth anniversary of the chamber orchestra Basler Kammerorchester; it notably shifts between D major and minor. The premiere took place on Sunday, 10 June 1951 at the City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with décor by Jean Rosenthal, costumes by Ruth Sobatka and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. It was danced as part of City Ballet's 1982 Stravinsky Centennial"
"very rich. Before long he falls in love with Philibert's daughter Yvonne. In 1919 the play was turned into a French silent film ""The Little Cafe"" directed by Tristan Bernard's son Raymond Bernard. In 1930 Paramount Pictures made an American adaptation ""Playboy of Paris"" directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Maurice Chevalier. Paramount also produced a French-language version, ""Le Petit Café"" (1931), again starring Chevalier. In the 1960s, the play was turned into an Italian television film (1963) and a later Yugoslavian version (1967). The Little Cafe (play) The Little Cafe (French:Le petit café) is a French comedy play written"
"wrote the libretto, i.e., the lyrics. Originally commissioned by a friend of Diaghilev in 1915, it was not publicly performed until 1922. The principal dancers were: Nijinska (as the Fox), Stanislas Idzikowski (as the Cock), Jean Jazvinsky and Micel Federov (as the Cat, and the Goat). Costumes and sets by Michel Larionov were in a type of radical, modernist style with a ""primitive quality"". The plot comes from ""Russian preliterary theater"" sourced in ""a tradition of itinerant folk entertainers"" impersonating buffoons and animals. The Fox (a con-artist) works to trick the Cock (a wealthy peasant) in order to literally eat"