Cabaret (Film) Bob Fosse

Imagine the scene at the Kit Kat Klub during the second act of the musical Cabaret. The Emcee takes the stage with an actor in a gorilla costume wearing a dress and pearls. The song is "If You Could See Her." At first, the audience laughs as the...

Transformation allows for a re-interpretation of a text from a different perspective. The relationship between the composer, responder, text and context are integral in this metamorphosis. Christopher Isherwood’s novella Goodbye to Berlin (1939)...

While “Cabaret” relies on the cabaret setting as a narrative force of the film, it is also based in the history surrounding cabaret performances in Berlin. Both in the film and in real life, the cabaret served as a place of degenerate art and...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby and Bob Fosse’s musical film Cabaret both explore how a lifelong pursuit of hedonistic pleasure will lead to self-destruction through the use of stylistic conventions of their text type. The term...