The American Film Institute has released its list of the top 25 musicals. What musical film, based on a play that was, in turn, inspired by a collection of short stories by a man who was not a native of the country about which he was writing, appears on this list? Who was that author, and who wrote the play?

gdec1

Cabaret It is based loosely on the 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret by Kander and Ebb, which was in turn based in part on the Berlin stories of Christopher Isherwood.Rejecting his upper-class background and attracted to men, he moved to Berlin, the capital of the young Weimar Republic, drawn by its deserved reputation for sexual freedom. He worked as a private tutor while writing the novel Mr. Norris Changes Trains and a series of short stories collected under the title Goodbye to Berlin. These provided the inspiration for the play I Am a Camera and the subsequent musical Cabaret. I Am a Camera was a 1951 play by John Van Druten, inspired by Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories, which in turn went on to inspire the musical and film Cabaret. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Camera Sep 07 06, 6:58 PM

lanfranco

Very nice, gdec, and you get the silver mace. I'm very fond of "Cabaret" and of Isherwood, but I have to say that when it comes to musical films, "The Wizard of Oz" still does it for me. Here's the AFI list: http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/news/celebrity/mmx-0609060185sep06,0,7358275.story?coll=mmx-celebrity_heds Sep 07 06, 7:49 PM

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