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Cabaret is a 1972 American musical period drama film directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse from a screenplay by Jay Presson Allen, based on the stage musical of the same name by John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff, [4] which in turn was based on the 1951 play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten and the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood.
The first recording of Cabaret was the original Broadway cast album with a number of the songs either truncated (e.g., "Sitting Pretty"/"The Money Song") or outright cut to conserve disk space. [81] When this album was released on compact disc, Kander and Ebb's voice-and-piano recordings of songs cut from the musical were added as bonus ...
The soundtrack consisted of songs which were curated from Benson's musical selections included in the script written during the film's pre-production. [1] Benson associated with music supervisor Mary Ramos, on curating specific songs with the stipulated budget allocated for music rights and also appropriate to the situation and narrative, thereby becoming a conscious process.
"Tomorrow Belongs to Me" is a song from the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret, and the 1972 film of the same name, sung primarily by a Nazi character. It was written and composed by two Jewish musicians – John Kander and Fred Ebb – as part of an avowedly anti-fascist work; the nationalist character of the song serves as a warning to the musical's characters of the rise of Nazism.
After a heated row, Sally goes on stage singing “Cabaret” (“life is a cabaret, old chum”), thus confirming her decision to live in carefree ignorance of the impending problems in Germany. The version of the song used in the musical includes a verse beginning: "I used to have a girlfriend known as Elsie With whom I shared
Using the opening song this way prepares us for the two different uses to which songs will be put in the show. At the very end, the Emcee briefly reprises "Willkommen", perhaps an ironic welcome to the new Germany Ernst and the Nazis are building, but the Emcee doesn't finish the final phrase; the song stops, unfinished, and he disappears.
The Greatest Hits is a 2024 American romantic fantasy film written, produced and directed by Ned Benson, and starring Lucy Boynton, Justin H. Min, David Corenswet, and Austin Crute. It follows Harriet (Boynton) who, mourning her deceased boyfriend, travels back in time when she listens to a particular song associated with the latter.
Greatest Hits Volume 2 is the third compilation album by singer-songwriter James Taylor released in 2000. It was a follow-up to his first Greatest Hits album released in 1976. Track listing