But what Christopher Isherwood is being revered here? The one who when still alive said disparaging things about both the stage musical and the film and had a rather antagonistic relationship to show business and the people who worked in it or the one who is filtered through Kander & Ebb’s showtunes?
Isherwood was a fantastic writer and a messy complicated human being. His masterpiece, in my opinion, is “My Guru and his Disciple”. It’s such a remarkably raw and honest book.
