The same thing happened to Grease. The original Broadway production is almost unrecognizable from the movie and the subsequent revivals. The original was a lot dirtier and more realistic (if memory serves, Sandy and Danny don't end up together in the original?). For the movie, a lot of the original songs were scrapped…

@Elusive Robert Denby: Your take on Cabaret is pretty spot-on. I don't think many people, even in the theatre community, get the show. If you've read Berlin Stories, Sally is an even more pathetic figure than in the musical. She's an absolutely dreadful and utterly charmless performer; she can't sing, she can't act,…

God, me too. I seem to be stuck on "Start by admitting from cradle to tomb / Isn't that long a stay." It's really fucking depressing…