Jill Haworth as Sally Bowles in Cabaret...- Page 2

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 2:46pm

Jill Haworth made her name in movies before landing the role of "Sally Bowles" in the original 1966 Broadway production of CABARET.
She made an impressive film debut in the Otto Preminger classic EXODUS in 1960. Preminger also cast her in the films IN HARMS WAY and THE CARDINAL.

She won the heart of EXODUS co-star Sal Mineo during filming.

I think her "Sally" on the OBC is good.

[roquat]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 4:47pm

I am so everlastingly sick of Liza being criticized for singing "too well" in CABARET. Almost as sick as I became of the producers sticking every tone-deaf movie and TV star imaginable into the Studio 54 revival.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 5:10pm

I agree, roquat!

I mean, I am so sick of it when people say that Liza is too good of a singer EVEN THOUGH Christopher Isherwood wrote that Sally isn't a great singer AND Kander & Ebb based the character of Sally Bowles on Isherwood's Sally.
Updated On: 9/3/05 at 05:10 PM

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 5:25pm

What does Irving Berlin have to do with CABARET?

[roquat]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 11:16pm

Careful, everybody. Nobody trashes Liza around me.

[ljay889]

Posted: 9/3/05 at 11:23pm

But who is trashing Liza??

Some of us just feel Jill Haworth's voice fit the character better.

[Plum]

Posted: 9/4/05 at 12:32am

I like them both, but Haworth was my first Sally, so her version has been imprinted in my mind as the definitive one.

And her "Don't Tell Mama" is sensational.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 9/4/05 at 4:40pm

I read some interesting history on her involvement with the original production. Evidently, she had never really sung before in her life, but Prince was determined to cast her simply because she so ideally matched his "vision" of Sally. The critics, evidently, did not agree, and she did not receive many favorable reviews (I remember one referred to her as "a flavorless ingenue"). She wasn't even nominated for a Tony Award, which when you're playing a role as great as Sally, is definitely a signal that you're not doing a very good job. Allison Reed, the Sally in the 1980s revival, was nominated, then Natasha Richardson won in the recent revival, and of course Liza Minelli won an Oscar for the film version.

I agree that Haiworth sounds fine on the cast recording, but evidently the live performance wasn't at the level it should have been.