Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
Minnelli had auditioned to play Sally in the original Broadway production but was deemed too inexperienced at the time, even though she had won Broadway's Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. By the time "Cabaret" reached the screen, however, Minnelli was a film star having earned an Oscar nomination as the emotionally damaged college student in "The Sterile Cuckoo" (1969).