MUSICALS!: Cabaret (1972)
Missed. Opportunities.
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of antisemitism, the Holocaust, homophobia, queerphobia, Nazism, racism, genocide.
M.L. Earheart of The LaFresian Chronicles is back this week for the prettiest mess of a movie we’ve seen in a little while. Bob Fosse was truly a groundbreaking choreographer and director, and was able to create sinister, tragic worlds using nothing more than bodies. But his directing choices for this film seemed destined to undercut what made his staging so uniquely outstanding. Of course, the messiest part of this musical is the script and story itself, which takes a pretty rad story of Weimar Berlin and made it all about how little anyone had the moral fortitude to do the right thing for each other, let alone fight the fascists. In fact, the movie is saved only by two people, and we’ll give you a hint - neither of them is Michael York. Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome to this week’s movie, Cabaret, on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpts taken from the film Cabaret are © 1972 Lorimar Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
Excerpt taken from “Money” from Cabaret: The New Broadway Cast Recording, performed by Alan Cumming and The Kit Kat Girls. © 1998, BMG Entertainment.
Excerpt taken from the film Toy Story 3 is © 2010 Disney*Pixar.
