h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Okay, so hi. Yeah, I was gone again. Not my fault! I had to move out of my dorm and had to pack the ethernet cable, and then I had to do various stuff at home and couldn't waste time on the computer! But okay, I'm back. All's better now. Now I will proceed to say some stuff at random, and ignore all the thousands of responses to threads that I have to read (yeah, right) in order to have a clue what's been going on in the last week.
Hi, everyone! First of all, thank you to David the SL, for consistently recommending Cabaret. I was just watching a thing on tv and it showed Joel Grey as the MC doing "Wilkommen" in the original Broadway production. Ordinarily I wouldn't have given it much thought, since Cabaret wasn't the highest on my list of shows I want to see, but remembering David's frequent plugs of the show, I paid more attention, and liked it a lot! I think I like that actor playing that character, and you'll be glad to know that Cabaret has officially been bumped up the list to tie with Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage Aux Folles for musicals I most want to see onstage.
Speaking of musicals, I will eventually get to finishing that page on Forbidden Broadway, just as soon as I get the CDs from the library so I can read the liner notes and get the correct dates and names.
In other news, I will be starting work at Six Flags (an amusement park that prides itself on building insanely insane roller coasters) next week. I was a little nervous until I found out one of my friends has to dress up as cartoon characters for all the parades and decided that nothing they could ask me to do could possibly be any worse than that. So it'll be kinda fun!
So life is lovely and lively being back home for the summer, and hopefully I can manage to spend a goodly portion of it in front of this computer. But not right now, as it's late and the words are swimming in front of my face. So nighty-night to anyone who's actually bothered to read this far (and thanks!)

Well I defnitely agree with David about Cabaret. Joel Gray was in the film as well

The film version of Cabaret is very good, but the stage version is infinitely superior, in my opinion. Glad you liked 'Willkommen' and the fantabulous Joel Grey.

Have fun at Six Flags, sounds exciting.

David B, the

I love all the songs from Cabaret, but the film didn't seem to have quite enough songs to be a good musical, which vaguely disappointed me.

And here I thought they put people in cartoon suits when they were bad at work. Have fun with that!

As far as Cabaret (and a number of other musicals) are concerned, I refuse to see the movie until I've seen it onstage. (Besides, I've heard that Hello, Dolly! and Mame and A Little Night Music were bad movies.)

Gladly, I won't have to dress up in a cartoon suit (which would be especially awful here in Southern California). I'll be selling the pictures they take as you go down the roller coasters. It should be pretty fun, actually.

The film of 'Cabaret' cuts most of the songs from the original stage version, including all of the 'book' songs (i.e. any songs that are sung in character rather than on stage at the Kit Kat Klub) with the exception of 'Tomorrow Belongs To Me', the beautiful-but-horrible song adopted by the Nazi sympathisers.

The songs cut are:

- 'The Telephone Song' (everybody)
- 'Perfectly Marvellous' (Sally, with Cliff joining in)
- 'Why Should I Wake Up' (Cliff)
- 'So What' and 'What Would You Do' (Fraulien Schneider)
- 'Meeskite' (Herr Schultz)
- 'Married' and 'It Couldn't Please Me More' (Schneider and Schultz)

Herr Schultz doesn't even exist in the film...

The film also adds 'Maybe This Time' (an earlier song by the same people) and replaces 'Don't Tell Mama' with 'Mein Herr' and 'Sitting Pretty' with 'Money, Money'. So an almost entirely different score for the film ('Willkommen', 'Two Ladies', 'If You Could See Her', 'Cabaret' and the aforementioned 'Tomorrow Belongs To Me' are the only songs shared by stage and film, though subsequent stage versions have sometimes added the new film songs).

On another, rather less geeky note, I'm proud to say I've never bought one of those rollercoaster pictures, though various people I know do have one with me on it (mostly kids I was chaperoning, who would probably rather just have them on it!).

Can't recall when the stage-version was on last in the UK. If it wasn't for the film I wouldn't have seen it at all, although I have read Isherwood. My mistake only really becoming interested in musicals since leaving London, bad timing that

Definitely.

I would love to live in an area where I could see decent musicals. As it is, I deal with just playing the music from them. And, of course, singing at the top of my lungs when I don't think anyone else is around.

Evil people, cutting songs from the movie!!!!!!

Flying Betty, I've found that no matter where I am, if I dig deep enough, I can find some place that does musicals. Or else, as you said, you can always sing. (Of course, with me, that guarantees there will be no one else around.)