I Am a Camera
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The production was a critically acclaimed success for both Julie Harris as the insouciant Sally Bowles, winning her the first of five Tony Awards of her career for Best Leading Actress in a play, and for Marian Winters, who won both the Theatre World Award and Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Play. The play also won for John Van Druten the New York Drama Critics' Circle for Best American Play (1952).[4] It also earned the famous review by Walter Kerr, "Me no Leica".[5][6]
Original Broadway Cast (1951)
- Christopher Isherwood - William Prince
- Fraulein Schneider - Olga Fabian
- Fritz Wendel - Martin Brooks
- Sally Bowles - Julie Harris
- Natalia Landauer - Marian Winters
- Clive Mortimer - Edward Andrews
- Mrs. Watson-Courtneidge - Catherine Willard
Adaptations
- Film - I Am a Camera (1955) - screenplay by John Collier, music by Malcolm Arnold, starring Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey and Shelley Winters.
- Broadway Musical - Cabaret (1966) - directed by Hal Prince, book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, starring Jill Haworth, Bert Convy, Lotte Lenya, Jack Gilford, and Joel Grey.
- Film Musical - Cabaret (1972) - directed by Bob Fosse, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, starring Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey and Michael York.
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