Cabaret

影片《歌厅》原声大碟。 描述三十年代的德国，纳粹刚刚兴起，柏林成为一个充满世纪末情调的都市。小酒店的歌舞女郎莎莉爱上了英国来的英文老师，而他却有一个同性恋的男友。莎莉的一个犹太籍女友，虽然家境富有，却被纳粹的阴影压得喘不过来气。一切的苦闷，都在莎莉表演歌舞的酒店中得到宣泄。 Cheated out of playing nightclub canary Sally Bowles on Broadway in director Hal Price's Cabaret, Liza Minnelli nevertheless delivered an Oscar-winning star turn in Bob Fosse's cinematic reinvention of the show (which had the good sense to retain perverse imp Joel Grey from the stage production). Although the 1972 film discarded several songs from the original score, the new ones sound even better: Minnelli's breast-beating "Maybe This Time," the sultry "Mein Herr," and the salaciously satirical "Money, Money." By placing almost all the pertinent musical action on the stage of the decadent Kit Kit Club, the Kurt Weill-like compositional nuances and political underpinnings bask in the spotlight...that is, when Minnelli stops eclipsing it with her no-holds-barred performance. --Kurt B. Reighley