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Sep 28, 2018 · Joe Masteroff, the playwright who won a Tony and international renown for “Cabaret,” the often-revived 1966 Broadway musical about soulless lovers lost in the decadence of a seedy Berlin...
Fifty years ago, a Broadway classic was born when John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff’s Cabaret opened on Broadway. But what opened on Broadway in 1966 is, for many, quite different from ...
Joe Masteroff, a musical bookwriter from Broadway’s golden age whose reputation rests primarily on two Harold Prince-directed shows, Cabaret and She Loves Me, died September 28, 2018, at the...
Jul 20, 2016 · In 1966, the musical was risqué for Broadway. “It was very sexy,” recalls Joe Masteroff, now 96, who wrote the book. “There were girls out in nightclub clothes.
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Sep 29, 2018 · Masteroff, the Tony Award-winning story writer of the brilliant, edgy musical “Cabaret” and the touching, romantic “She Loves Me,” has died at age 98. The Roundabout Theatre Company, which produced recent revivals of his best-loved shows, said Masteroff died Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J. (Photo by ...
Masteroff reinterpreted Isherwood's words into an orgiastic celebration of everything camp and debauched, heightening its homoeroticism and dimming the brutality of fascism...
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Cabaret is an American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a book by Joe Masteroff. It is based on the 1951 play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten, which in turn was based on the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood .
