Monday 18 March 2013

CABARET!

This week is the first week of spring break! I have a lot of time on my hands so I have decided to watch as many movie musicals as I can in the next two weeks. I love movie musicals and there are so many popular ones that I have never seen so I am really looking forward to this challenge!

The first one that I will watch is Cabaret. This Oscar winning movie stars Joel Grey and Liza Minneli. The film is largely set in a nightclub with a larger than life MC brilliantly portrayed by Joel Grey. The movie expertly symbolizes the conflicts in Germany and the rest of the world in the 1930's with the growing Nazi Party.

From what I have heard, this movie is superb and very thought provoking. It is masterfully scored by Kander and Ebb (Tony Award winning composers and lyricists for Chicago) and directed by the great Bob Fosse. I am really excited to watch this film and I will report back my thoughts and feelings of the film next week. Wish me luck!

What good is sitting alone in your room?
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret.

Put down the knitting,
The book and the broom.
Time for a holiday.
Life is Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret.

Come taste the wine,
Come hear the band.
Come blow your horn,
Start celebrating;
Right this way,
Your table's waiting

No use permitting
soem prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away.
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret!

I used to have a girlfriend
known as Elsie
With whom I shared
Four sordid rooms in Chelsea

She wasn't what you'd call
A blushing flower...
As a matter of fact
She rented by the hour.

The day she died the neighbors
came to snicker:
"Well, thats what comes 
from to much pills and liquor."

But when I saw her laid out like a Queen
She was the happiest...corpse...
I'd ever seen.

I think of Elsie to this very day.
I'd remember how'd she turn to me and say:
"What good is sitting alone in your room?
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret."

And as for me,
I made up my mind back in Chelsea,
When I go, I'm going like Elsie.

Start by admitting
From cradle to tomb
Isn't that long a stay.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Only a Cabaret, old chum,
And I love a Cabaret!

1 comment:

  1. Cabaret! Great show. Joel Grey is amazing. Hope you enjoyed it.

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