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- - - - Highest grossing Broad. show
      - F wrote part of the book - dark, disturbing themes
      - First Broadway show to advertise on National TV
      - Realsm in musicals also shared with Chicago 1975 and Cabaret 1972
      - Brechtian - 4th Wall, 'Players'
      - 5 Tony awards incl. Best Direction and Chor. for Fosse
      - Vietnam War
      - Composed by Stephen Schwartz
      - About a yng man, Pippin, trying to find purpose to his life. Lack of role models. The players are insided Pippin's head. Self destruction. Deception
      - sections: Glory including The Manson Trio, With You, War is Science, Magic to Do
    - - Based on Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria
      - First show conceived, chor. and dir. by Fosse
      - Fosse wanted to create a show around Gwen Verdon (replaced by Shirley MacLaine in the 1969 film)
      - Fandango Ballroom is based on 42nd Street dance halls
      - Film was F's debut as film director; style documentary; quick cuts; audience perspective
      - sections: Rich Man's Frug, Rhyrhm of Life, Big Spender, I'm a Brass Band
    - - Pre-Nazi Germany; Hyperinflation; Peak of Germany's enter. industry
      - Composed by Kander and Ebb (same in Chicago)
      - Mein Herr and Money Song added for the film
      - Won an Oscar for best direction
      - Based on 1966 stage show
      - F's biggest public success
      - Sally Bowles; American Cabaret perf. in Germany. Young writer falls in love with Bowles
      - Expressionist art style
      - Based on Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin (1939) - stories of pre-Weimar Germany
      - sections: Wilkommen, Money, Mein Herr