This was the REAL 'Cabaret'!

Though Bob Fosse's 1972 "Cabaret" was brilliant, many critics (including the author, Christopher Isherwood, of the original work "Cabaret" was based upon) have said that the performers (Liza Minelli and Joel Grey) were FAR too talented than the work was intended...and the numbers were way too glitzy and professional. In the REAL "Cabaret" (according to Ishwerwood), the club was supposed to be extremely seedy and DESPERATE! The performers if they HAD any talent, would have been working somewhere else. THAT was the whole point.
When I watched the painfully amauterish performances in this film, I thought to myself, "Wow! THIS is what we should have been seeing in "Cabaret"!
Even Mr. Sophistcation was I think more closely accurate to the emcee in Isherwood's vision that Joel Grey.
Though I WOULDN'T want anything changed in Fosse's film, it's fun to think of this "alternate universe" for "Cabaret"!