Sold Date: November 18, 2019
Start Date: July 16, 2019
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Originally a 1966 Broadway musical, this groundbreaking  musical was in turn based on 's Goodbye to Berlin, previously dramatized for stage and screen as  with  as Sally Bowles. Fosse uses the decadent and vulgar cabaret as a mirror image of German society sliding toward the Nazis, and this intertwining of entertainment with social history marked a new step forward for the movie musical.  plays a British writer who comes to Berlin in the early 1930s in hopes of becoming a teacher. He makes the acquaintance of flamboyant American entertainer Sally Bowles, played by . Sally works at the Kit Kat Klub, a George Grosz-like Berlin cabaret where each night the smirking, androgynous Master of Ceremonies () introduces a jazz-driven "girlie show" to his debauched audience. Virtually all the film's musical numbers are staged within the confines of the Kit Kat Klub, and each song comments on the plot and on Germany's "progression" from hedonism to Hitlerism. Most of the Broadway score by  and  was retained, with the welcome addition of "The Money Song." Although it lost Best Picture to ,  won eight Oscars, including awards to Minnelli, Grey, and Fosse