Cabaret (soundtrack)

Cabaret is the soundtrack album to the 1972 film of the same name. Released by ABC Records in 1972, the album features music by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb, performed by Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, and the film’s cast, with arrangements and musical supervision by Ralph Burns. The film, directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, adapts the 1966 stage musical based on Christopher Isherwood’s writings and is set in Berlin during the final years of the Weimar Republic.

The soundtrack includes songs presented primarily as performances at the Kit Kat Klub, alongside numbers such as “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” that are staged outside the nightclub. Upon release, the album received significant attention as part of the film’s critical and commercial success, achieving notable chart performance in the United States and internationally.