It's Mr. New York.

Mark Simone on 710 W.O.R. Well, hey, guess who our guest is? And I guess we usually do it on the phone. You don't want guests in person. That's terrible. They always show up with eight people. I know. Six of them want coffee. I know. Three of them want the Wi-Fi password. Two need to go to the bathroom. You got my rider, right? You got my rider? Yes, your rider is you want a chair and a microphone. This is Michael Reed, the great columnist, writer, best-selling author, and, of course, co-host of the morning show with Len Berman, six to ten. And I like that you still have your jacket on you me always let you know I'm not staying

that long that's right I want to get out of your hair you know that I don't want to take up too much

your time mark this morning so yeah yeah so uh hey uh now you got two best selling books razzle dazzle

and uh I'm blanking out singular sensation singular sensation a triumph of Broadway these are the two

best books on Broadway you should order them and he writes these great columns but so I'm blanking out. Singular sensation. A triumph of Broadway. These are the two best books on Broadway.

You should order them.

And he writes these great columns.

So you have a column now in an article in Vanity Fair.

I do, yeah.

So there's a revival of Cabaret, the great John Candor, Fred Ebb Show, on Broadway now starring Eddie Redmay in the Joel Gray role as the MC set in Weimar, Germany. And I've written a piece for Vanity Fair. It's the history of the musical cabaret. And it's, you know, poignant in a way because when I began working on the article, it was the first week of October, right? Yeah. And October 7th, Hamas goes into Israel and has what is essentially a

pogrom. That was a pogrom in Israel. Okay, that's what they did. They killed Jews. That was a

pogrom. And I'm sitting writing this article about a cabaret, which is the prelude to Hitler

coming to power. And it just goes to show you that this is a show, sadly, that's never out of date.

In fact, I interviewed John Cander.

And he's 96 years old.

He's the last, he and Joel Gray are the last living members of the original 1966 production.

And John said, he said, people say to me all the time cabaret he said it's it and

people say it never goes out of date it's always relevant and john said and all i can say is isn't

that awful kind of true well that canter and i of course wrote new york new york that song that

absolutely live forever and chicago if you i you know i once did this just for fun i calculated the royalties that John Kander is making a week on Chicago, which has now been running around the world for 26 years.

And its worldwide gross is $4.3 billion.

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