When Cabaret, the musical based on Christopher Isherwood’s “Berlin Stories” and I Am a Camera, John Van Druten’s straight-play adaptation, opened on Broadway in 1966, it was considered shocking but would probably be seen as tame today. Harold Prince’s original staging of the nightclub numbers was sleazy but charming, letting the audience feel loose, relaxed, and entertained. Then the introduction of swatiskas and the growing menace of Nazism in the second act came as a brutal shock.
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