THEATRE GOSSIP #594: "THE NEW CABARET WAS A HORRENDOUS IDEA INEPTLY EXECUTED" EDITION

It was better than the new Pirates!

John Stamos dead, Zendaya dead, Dead Outlaw dead!!!

Is David Cromer fucking Andrew Durand? I'd pay Broadway prices to watch that.

Bea Arthur is a Herbie, not a Rose.

R3, me, too!

I must have the new thread creator on F/F. I start with R1.

I avoided Cabaret this time around until a friend joined the cast. I loved it, especially Peck.

I loved it when I saw it with Andrew Lambert and Auli'i Cravalho, R7. Both of them gave very fine performances.

I really think that dreadful, bizarre performance of Eddie Redmayne soured people on this production.

Bring. It. Back!! I cannot be that difficult to revive.

^^*It*

What a come-down the Broadway CABARET must have been for Eddie Redmayne.

He won the Olivier and was the toast of London in a hit show with rave reviews. Then he comes to NY, and the reviews are mixed at best, and he was never going to win the Tony.

DeShields could still do it!

R12 Yes, and now doing the Nell Carter track!

R6: “I must have the new thread creator on F/F. I start with [R1].”

Swallow your pride like you swallowed loads at Pride and unblock OP.

Or not

The new thread title is DREADFUL!

If I'm asked (admittedly not that often) to name productions in my lifetime that I consider perfect, the original AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' always tops the list.

[quote]So, exactly how much internalized homophobia and self loathing do you harbor, sweetheart?

Do you realize you just said that in your gay voice, cupcake ?

Now that most of this season's flops have closed (c'mon already Boop!), can we push for the too-long-running Chicago, Hadestown, &Juliet, Six, The Book of Mormon, Harry Potter and Moulin Rouge to shutter and go away and make room for new shit?,

I left out Wicked, The Lion King, Aladdin and Hamilton cause they're still raking it in.

Probably should have included MJ and Hell's Kitchen (too noisy!).

There had been rumors a few months ago that 'Six', '& Juliet' and 'Moulin Rouge!' was supposed to be closing at the end of this summer, but I haven't heard anything since.

I saw "Cabaret" last summer with Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin. I agree, it was a horrendous idea, ineptly executed.

Redmayne played the emcee like a Batman villain, and the producers' attempt to completely disengage Sally Bowles from the Liza template (impossible and foolhardy, imo) by recasting her as a Courtney Love-style grunge/kinderwhore types did not work *at all.*

Frecknall is a lousy director. First Cabaret, then Streetcar. I hear she's going to fuck up Death Of A Salesman next.

One more week and nobody will ever have to hear "Andy Payne" from Dead Outlaw ever again!

R23 is going to be more of a Death of a Shopbottom

the Jimmy's are live!

streaming through June 26 I believe

(every time you spot a future Datalounger....down a shot)

R26 "the award show for those who want to be spit on by Jonathan Groff" from the opening monologue

[Quote] Now that most of this season's flops have closed (c'mon already Boop!), can we push for the too-long-running Chicago, Hadestown, &Juliet, Six, The Book of Mormon, Harry Potter and Moulin Rouge to shutter and go away and make room for new shit?,

There’s sad thing is most of the new shit is just shitty too

I saw Eddie walking the midtown streets last year with his family. He looked very happy

Who will be in the 2027 revivals of Gypsy and Cabaret? You know they are coming, new and improved! What about Annie and 12 Angry Men? I hear Glengarry is due for another revival too.

The rest of the family was screaming: Rats!!

Can we get a new female ODD COUPLE? Maybe Patti and Mia.

^^ I just said that to (try to) be funny... I rather detest Neil Simon. Which of his works have been revived on Broadway since his death?

Do you think his crap will fade away (aside from community theater) or will it grow in reputation and stature as the years pass?

The only Broadway revival to date of a Neil Simon play since his 2018 death was Plaza Suite in 2022.

Next year, Sydney Sweeney IS the Star-Spangled Girl!

And Cheno is The Gingerbread Lady

Please let Cole Escola be the Star-Spangled Girl!

[quote]I must have the new thread creator on F/F. I start with [R1].

How lovely to be ignored by you, R6. One of my proudest accomplishments :-)

[quote]Do you realize you just said that in your gay voice, cupcake ?

Whatever voice I said it in, R18, I know the truth hurts, so you must be hurting big-time.

Billy Porter and Dylan Mulvaney as Paul and Corie Bratter in Barefoot in the Ramble!

Tom Wopat In COME BLOW MY HORN!

I saw "Cabaret" last summer with Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin. I agree, it was a horrendous idea, ineptly executed. Redmayne played the emcee like a Batman villain, and the producers' attempt to completely disengage Sally Bowles from the Liza template (impossible and foolhardy, imo) by recasting her as a Courtney Love-style grunge/kinderwhore types did not work *at all.*

[quote]I agree about Redmayne. Absolutley dreadful. Subsequent Emcees have been much more successful in this revival. I'm not sure I agree with the characterization of Sally being "disengaged from the Liza template," though. The film is its own thing... completely refashioned around Liza, of course. But, I don't think the Sally from the celebrated (and massively successful) Mendes revival was a transfer of the Liza Sally. I recognize that the revival incorporated a lot of the film songs that Liza originated, but, I don't see the Natasha Richardson generation of Sallys to be doing a "Liza". They were their own thing. If anything, they were an update to the Jill Haworth / Judi Dench Sally.

I don't know if original directors work much with subsequent casts, but I thought the Broadway Sally who was in the role prior to the current one... the actress who was there the same time as Adam Lambert... was absolutely fantastic. I was also pleasantly surprised that although she, yes, had some of that harshness around the edges for sure, she injected a LOT more musicality and charm into her vocal performances than I recall seeing in the earlier London and NY Sallys from this revival. Honestly, if she and Adam Lambert had opened this production, I 100% think it would have earned better reviews because both of them were still true to this revival's tone and concept, BUT, both of them were vocally sublime and infinitely more charming than their predecessors.

Sorry, I fucked up the formatting of my post at R42. The first paragraph should have been the one I quoted from R22 / jeangenie. I'll repost below......

*********************ORIGINAL POST AT R42 SHOULD HAVE READ....***************

[QUOTE]I saw "Cabaret" last summer with Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin. I agree, it was a horrendous idea, ineptly executed. Redmayne played the emcee like a Batman villain, and the producers' attempt to completely disengage Sally Bowles from the Liza template (impossible and foolhardy, imo) by recasting her as a Courtney Love-style grunge/kinderwhore types did not work *at all.*

I agree about Redmayne. Absolutley dreadful. Subsequent Emcees have been much more successful in this revival. I'm not sure I agree with the characterization of Sally being "disengaged from the Liza template," though. The film is its own thing... completely refashioned around Liza, of course. But, I don't think the Sally from the celebrated (and massively successful) Mendes revival was a transfer of the Liza Sally. I recognize that the revival incorporated a lot of the film songs that Liza originated, but, I don't see the Natasha Richardson generation of Sallys to be doing a "Liza". They were their own thing. If anything, they were an update to the Jill Haworth / Judi Dench Sally.

I don't know if original directors work much with subsequent casts, but I thought the Broadway Sally who was in the role prior to the current one... the actress who was there the same time as Adam Lambert... was absolutely fantastic. I was also pleasantly surprised that although she, yes, had some of that harshness around the edges for sure, she injected a LOT more musicality and charm into her vocal performances than I recall seeing in the earlier London and NY Sallys from this revival. Honestly, if she and Adam Lambert had opened this production, I 100% think it would have earned better reviews because both of them were still true to this revival's tone and concept, BUT, both of them were vocally sublime and infinitely more charming than their predecessors.

*********************REACTION TO R43 and R42..... NEEDS TO BE SAID***************

Chill out, Mary! We overlooked the fuck up and were able to read your long post.

Any Nor Cal gals seen Datalounge favorite KAREN ZIEMBA's Dolly Levi at the Sacramento Music Fair?

[quote]Whatever voice I said it in, [R18], I know the truth hurts, so you must be hurting big-time.

Going from your 'knowledge', if you said something true, it must be hurting me big time. However, none of what you said is true. So continue if you wish, as long as you...

STOP talking in your gay voice! You have purses falling out of your mouth every time you speak.

Marjorie Prime is coming to Broadway in the fall.

It has a choice role for a woman of a certain age.

Lois Smith played the role in the movie and in 2015.

Any rumors for who is doing the Broadway transfer?

I would love to see someone like Stockard Channing or Blythe Danner in the role.

I saw the great Brit actress Anne Reid in Marjorie Prime at the Menier Chocolate Factory a few years ago. Such a dumb play, even she couldn't save it.

Loïs will do it.