After Bob Fosse made the central character bisexual in his superb 1972 film version, however, revivals of the show rewrote him as nonstraight-and the transformative 1998 Broadway production, which returned to Broadway in 2014, upped the ante by making the malign Emcee of the seedy Kit Kat Klub explicitly queer as well. The original 1966 version of this portrait of German life in the early 1930s-with a book by Joe Masteroff and a classic score by John Kander and Fred Ebb-scrubbed the gayness from its source material, Christopher Isherwood's 1939 novella Goodbye to Berlin.
Cabaret ’s unusual evolution gives it a special place on this list, as its relationship to gay content has been in a continual state of flux.
