Cabaret (musical)

Cabaret is a 1966 Broadway musical, based on John Van Druten's play I Am a Camera, based in its turn on stories by Christopher Isherwood, with book by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander, produced and directed by Hal Prince and starring Bert Convy, Jack Gilford, Jill Haworth, Lotte Lenya, Joel Grey, Peg Murray, and Edward Winter. The musical is set in Berlin in the 1930's during the run-up to the coming to power of the Nazis under Adolf Hitler.

Its original New York run was from 1966–1969, winning Tony Awards in 1967 for Best Musical, Best Composer and Lyricist, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical (Grey), Best Supporting Actress in a Musical (Murray), Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Choreography, and Best Direction of a Musical. Gilford, Winter, and Lenya were all nominated for Tonys as well. The musical has been revived twice to date, in 1987 and 1998.

The 1987 revival starred Joel Grey in a return to the role as the Emcee, which he originated in 1966. Co-starring with him were Werner Klemperer, Alyson Reid and Regina Resnik.

The 1998 revival directed by Sam Mendes and co-directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall, which was the second longest-running revival in Broadway musical history, closed in January 2004. It starred Natasha Richardson (Sally) and Alan Cumming (the Emcee), who both won Tonys for Leads in a Musical; John Benjamin Hickey (Clifford Bradshaw); Ron Rifkin (Herr Schultz), who won a Tony for Featured Actor in a Musical; Mary Louise Wilson (Fraulein Schneider), who was nominated for Featured Actress in a Musical; and Denis O'Hare (Ernst Ludwig).