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guess because he was in London, he
world as a journalist and was assistant
felt he was safe," the playwright
editor of a motion picture trade publi-
recalls. "When I saw the changes, I
cation before serving with the Air
Force from 1942-46. After studying
thought they were wonderful.
'After we arranged to do the show
dramatic arts at the American Theatre
in New York, the two of us sat down
Wing, he wrote a number of plays,
together and sort of legalized some of
some done on TV, and received recog-
the changes he made. Several songs
nition from the New York Theatre
were inserted. Some songs and several
Club for his piece The Warm
Peninsula, which featured former
dance numbers were removed.
Detroiter Julie Harris.
"There are
many revisions
Masteroff moved
that have made
into musical theater
with She Loves Me,
the show move
much faster now.
which had a Jerry
Bock-Sheldon
Because there's
Harnick score. After
very little
Cabaret, he worked
scenery, the
on the cult musical
action is more
70, Girls, 70, his sec-
cinematic."
ond venture with
In New York,
John Kander and
the new Cabaret
Fred Ebb.
had some mem-
"When we first sat
bers of the audi-
down to write
ence sitting at
Cabaret, I wanted to
tables to make it
have a story that
more interactive.
involved somebody
Although that
who was Jewish and
was not feasible
couldn't just leave or
for the tour,
maybe wouldn't leave
there still is some
Germany," Masteroff
give and take
Playwright Joe Masteroff wrote the
recalls.
between the cast
book for "Cabaret" more than 30
"In [I Am A
and the crowd.
years ago. For the new production,
Camera], the original
'All of us con-
"Mendes had made a great many
story by Isherwood,
nected with creat-
there had been a land- revisions without ever asking my
ing the original
permission," he says. "[But _1 when
lady named Fraulein
show were Jewish
I saw the changes, I thought they
Schneider, who had a
— the producers,
were wondeifi4l."
minor role. We made
the director, the
her into a major role,
author, the chore-
and she still was a landlady with a
ographer," says Masteroff, the never-
Jewish boyfriend, an older man. She
married descendant of Russian Jews
and he are carrying on, she never
who donates considerable sums to sav-
thinking they're going to get married
ing Yiddish books. "How could that
until he eventually proposes. In the
fail but affect us writing about pre-
course of the show, we see what hap-
Nazi Berlin? It's all through there.
pens to an ostensible good German
"People can still go to Cabaret,
about to marry a Jew in pre-Hitler
have a good time and come out think-
Berlin.
ing that it was really about something.
"Interestingly enough, when the
I love the fact that it's been speaking
movie was made, they cut that out
to audiences for 30 years.
altogether and had a different subplot
"The theater is my life. I care about
involving a rich department store
it a lot and go to it a lot. Most of my
heiress, who was Jewish, and her gigo-
friends are affiliated with theater in
lo boyfriend, who turns out to be
one way or another, and if you're in
Jewish, too. I never liked that as
New York that's a full life. There's
much as I liked the plot that we had."
always something happening." II]
Before collaborating on the recent
revision of Cabaret, Masteroff went to
Cabaret will be performed at 8
London to see the way Mendes was
p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m.
directing it there. His reaction was
Saturdays and Sundays and
very different from what he expressed
7:30 p.m. Sundays, April-18-
about the film.
May 14, at the Fisher Theatre.
"Mendes had made a great many
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revisions without ever asking my per-
mission, which is actually illegal, but I