There is several recordings form stage to this movie out there. This movie has songs did you remember and probably sing in the shower. It is therefore the only movie production of the play even though it is exceptional THEREFORE there is no comparison. I appreciate books did become movies and movies are novelized did. So naturally I read Christopher Isherwood's "Berlin Stories" ISBN: 0,811,200,701th theywere ok HOWEVER, It was not by any stretch of the Cabaret imagination. What I found interesting is That I Always Heard That Germans liked to sing of things as the deer in the field and so forth. Here there was a perfect Example When They broke into song with "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" You are swept up in it and forget That this is just a movie. The pacing and photography in the movie was excellent. As long as you did not see the play you will not notice the absence of some songs: such as "Do not Tell Mama" and thing that "Money Money" is a natural. On the darker side the movie is more than just a musical romp through Germany. And the specter is so well portrayed.