Sunday, July 02, 2006

I Am A Camera




A new blog, with a name coined by writer Christopher Isherwood with double meanings, of course.

His short story "Goodbye to Berlin" was turned into -- the play, "I Am A Camera," which was one of the big hits in Julie Harris's career. And, of course, "I Am A Camera" eventually morphed into a musical called "Cabaret," directed and produced by Hal Prince. And ultimately it became a movie musical, starring -- what's her name?

Almost everyone won a major award in some incarnation of "Goodbye To Berlin"; Hal Prince, Joel Grey, Peg Murray (whom I performed with in Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't it Romantic"); Julie Harris, and Liza.

And that's all due to today's portrait, Christopher Isherwood.


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