They wrote musicals based on the most unlikely material but John Kander and Fred Ebb enjoyed ultimate success with Cabaret and Chicago. Christopher Isherwood’s novel Goodbye to Berlin about pre-war Nazi Berlin became Cabaret. Maurine Dallas Watkins wrote a play Chicago, about a woman (not Roxy Hart) who, like Roxy, got away with murder; along the way it was a silent movie.
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