Musical· 1966· Drama
by John Kander
Cabaret: 1 recorded work traces back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
Works that record this one as a source, with the evidence a contributor gave.
Bob Fosse's film adapts the Kander and Ebb musical about Sally Bowles and the Kit Kat Klub in Weimar Berlin as the Nazis rise. It keeps songs only for performances on the club's stage, cuts others, adds new ones, and returns to Isherwood's stories for its secondary characters.
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Kander and Ebb's musical, with a book by Joe Masteroff, is credited as based on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories and John Van Druten's play I Am a Camera, adapted from them. Sally Bowles, the cabaret and the approach of the Nazis come from Isherwood's Berlin of the early 1930s.