February 13 1972 

CABARET opens. Dir. Bob Fosse. Screenplay by Jay Presson Allen. Based on Cabaret by Joe Masteroff, I Am A Camera by John Van Druten and Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. Astringent, multi-Oscar laurelled adapt. of hit Broadway musical with Liza Minelli as Sally Bowles, a flamboyant nightclub performer juggling greasepaint and romantic trysts in an evocatively realised 1932 Berlin decadently slouching toward Nazi infamy. With Michael York, Joel Grey and Helmut Griem.

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