Cabaret: Original Soundtrack Recording
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Cheated out of playing nightclub canary Sally Bowles on Broadway in director Hal Price’s Cabaret, Liza Minnelli nevertheless delivered an Oscar-winning star turn in Bob Fosse’s cinematic reinvention of the show (which had the good sense to retain perverse imp Joel Grey from the stage production). Although the 1972 film discarded several songs from the original score, the new ones sound even better: Minnelli’s breast-beating “Maybe This Time,” the sultry “Mein Herr,” and the … More >>
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Cabaret: Original Soundtrack Recording
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Rating: 1 / 5
The vocals on this CD are amazing. Liza Minnelli has a wonderfull voice but she is not Sally bowles. Liza sings the final and greatest number, Cabaret, belting and it leaves a good feeling with you. But, that is not how it’s supposed to sound. Sally is not supposed to sound happy she is supposed to be upset that she left her love and is stuck in this awful place. This musical is not Cabaret it is something else with Liza Minnlli.
That is not the only problem with this CD. They toatally do away with the lnadlord’s and her boyfriend’s role. In the original the incriddible Lotta Lenya played the landlord and had to unbelievible songs. the movie also cut’s out over eight of the fabulous songs in the origimnal. Including Cliff’s only solo “Why Should I Wake Up.” Overall the movie recording is not the dark and haunting cabaret it should be. The best on this rrecording is Joel Grey becuase he is the only one who keeps his true collor.
If you want a full and excellent recording of cabaret get the originall with Joel Grey also.
Rating: 3 / 5
Bob Fosse’s film of CABARET trashed the original show,
but in re-interpreting the material, he made a classic film-
one that works as drama and only secondarily as a musical.
Consider – he jettisoned the supporting plot of the musical play
which contained all of the political points of the Nazi threat -
he kept only five of the fifteen songs (with two more as back-
ground music), added three new songs and dealt them out to only two singers (Joel Grey
and Liza Minnelli each get three solos and one duet). The only
real joy here is the new song MONEY MONEY. If the film were not
so good, the treatment of its music would have been unforgivable,
but Fosse displayed his genius here, winning one of the film’s
eight oscars as Best Director. Only Minnelli fans and fans of
the film need bother – the CD to get is the London cast recording
with Judi Dench as Sally Bowles and Barry Dennen as the Emcee.
Magnificent acting from all concerned.
Rating: 3 / 5
Cabaret is a musical filled with silly songs, but it is a serious musical as well. The soundtrack is well worth owning. There’s parts of Cabaret that are about the Nazi era. If you’ve never seen the movie(which I have), you’d think that “Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” is a comforting song. But in fact is a very synical song, sung quietly. I’d have to say that my favorite song in the musical is “Two Ladies.”
Rating: 5 / 5
First of all, I would like to say that this is one of the only CDs in which I liked Liza Minelli. I think the strange plastic surguries affected her voice. Anyway, I adored the songs, I thought they were hilarious, and the very picture of a Cabaret. And at the end, with the final cresendo of Cabaret, I just died, it was so powerfull. And, you can never forget the shocking ending of “You ask me why I chose her”, and the hodge podge of languages in Wilkkommen. And Joel Gray, though scary, shines through as frightening Emcee, the ring master. Bob Fosse’s greatest work, and it shows. If you liked Chicago, you’re certain to like Cabaret.
Rating: 5 / 5