The adapted film""s witty and funny screenplay, with crisp and crackling ensemble pieces, was written by Morrie Ryskind and Anthony Veiller, and was loosely based upon the Broadway stage play of the same name, written by George S.Debbie was Freddy""s next prospective victim, who was working out with bench-pressing weights in her attic, and presumably dozed off.Ominously, "Evil Eye also watches" from nearby.BackgroundCabaret(1972) is director/choreographer Bob Fosse""s defining, decadent, award-winning musical which popularized the phrase: "Life is a Cabaret.Mischievous Henry (played by young George), ""Peck""s Bad Boy,"" pelts grocer Schults (Harry Jones) and an Irish cop (Roy T.