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- 33 . I Remember Mama was based on the first play that Rodgers and Hammerstein produced on Broadway, John Van Druten’s hit play of the same title, which opened its long run of 714 performances in 1944. In 1967 Rodgers wrote eight songs for a televised adaptation of Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion that featured Norman Wisdom as Androcles, Geo…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- Cabaret , based on the John Van Druten play I Am a Camera , which is based on the Christopher Isherwood novel Goodbye to Berlinebooks/Cuden, Steve/Beating Broadway_ How to Create Stories for Musicals That Get Standing Ovations - Steve Cuden.txt
- Direction : John van Druten; Producers : Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; Choreography : Jerome Robbins; Scenery and Lighting : Jo Mielziner; Costumes : Irene Sharaff; Musical Direction : Frederick Dvonchebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- The initial idea of Cabaret was excellent, but why take Christopher Isherwood's marvelous Berlin stories and John van Druten's often workable dramatization (1 Am a Camera) if what is to result is not enough like either to suggest a plagiarism suit? In Couple Number One Sally Bowles (heroine?) might as well have been a dish of goat's chees…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- 1. John Van Druten, in Playwright at Work (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, Inc., 1953), comments, "Working within limits is an easier thing than working with none."ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Cabaret had a couple of incarnations. It started out as a story in Christopher Isherwood’s book The Berlin Stories. Then, in John van Druten’s I Am a Camera, it became a legitimate stage play, later made into a movie. Harold Prince turned it into a musical with a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb. It was the story of Sally Bowles, a night…ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
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