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Porchlight Revisits I am a Camera at The Ruth Page Center For the Art

Dates: 2/8/2023 - 2/9/2023

Theatre:

The Ruth Page Center For the Art

Porchlight Music Theatre

1016 N Dearborn St.
Chicago,IL 60610

Phone: (773) 777-9884


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Premiering in 1951 starring Julie Harris as “Sally Bowles,” this special event staged reading is a rare opportunity to experience the remarkable play that became the inspiration for the musical Cabaret. Never revived on Broadway and not seen in Chicago in decades, the title is a quotation taken from Christopher Isherwood’s “Goodbye to Berlin’s” first page: “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.” Before Kander and Ebb. Before Bob Fosse. Before Liza Minnelli. Come see the play that started it all!



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