| re: CABAREDMAYNE | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 07:37 pm EDT 05/11/24 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 07:25 pm EDT 05/11/24 | |
| In reply to: re: CABAREDMAYNE - Chromolume 06:45 pm EDT 05/11/24 | |
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| The film is really good, but it's got less than half the score (see next paragraph) and jettisons the Schneider, Schultz, Kost and even Ernst stories, instead inventing Max and the romantic triangle/threesome, and the sublot with Natalia and Fritz. Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey are, of course, terrific, but it seems like Bob Fosse wanted to really go quite differently from the stage version and get away from Hal Prince (as he and Gwen Verdon had apparently distanced themselves from Prince since Prince didn't back them up with George Abbott during "New Girl in Town" and the whorehouse ballet which Abbott hated). Fosse even apparently really didn't want to use Joel Grey in the film until he was practically required to use him -- hell, what with Grey being one of the show's biggest assets as its breakout musical star! There were reports Fosse even wanted to use Ruth Gordon as the Emcee instead! Let's see - "So What?", "Telephone Song", "Perfectly Marvelous", "Why Should I Wake Up", "Don't Tell Mama", "Meeskite" "It Couldn't Please Me More (Pineapple"), "What Would You Do?", original "Money" song -- all gone. I think left from the original score are: "Willkommen", "Two Ladies", "Tomorrow Belongs to Me", "Cabaret", "If You Could See Her", and on a recording "Married (Heiraten)". I'm surprised that none of the new songs were Oscar-nominated; they were a lot better than some songs that have actually gotten the award in more recent years, a real missed opportunity to give Kander and Ebb Oscars. I'd add "Cabaret" to a list of films that, if they were going to remake and have it more attuned to the original stage version, might be reasonable to have a remake. "West Side Story" really didn't need to be -- musically (even with dubbed voices), the original well-represented the musical score and the choreography, and the storyline was pretty much intact with some changes. I'd also add "Fanny" and "Irma La Douce", both which have excellent scores which weren't sung (as they were done as non-musicals with the score as background music) as candidates to be redone. |
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