Billy Porter has made his grand return to Broadway!

This bitch.

He's only seventy-eight years old!

Couldn't pay me to see that crap with Billy. Saw it with Eddie and left at intermission.

Three Negro leads now in the show; can't see that a summer-tourist draw. He is over-the-top tiresome.

He about to find out the hard way he's not the box office draw he imagines himself to be.

R4 you don’t get bored?

R5, if it fails, he won't blame himself. He’ll attribute it to racism.

William Ellis Porter II (born September 21, 1969) , 55, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Billy Porter and Marisha Wallace Take Over Broadway's Cabaret

I guess the WHOLE THEE-ATER will be goin' dark soon enough, amirite??

[Quote] He about to find out the hard way he's not the box office draw he imagines himself to be.

No one is any third cast is

I wouldn’t mind seeing him but the entire show was just meh

[Quote] if it fails, he won't blame himself. He’ll attribute it to racism.

Black people usually only get a chance when something is already failing

He is so grim.

He revels in being what people consider a stupid, silly, stereotype, mistakenly thinking he's avant-garde and daring.

Billy, you are a bore and a joke. WHEN will you go away?

Whomever put up the money for this production is a fool (soon parted with his money.)

Forgot this.

What a fool.

Billy Porter IS Mama Rose! "I had a dreammm, a dream about ME, baby!" Coming sooner than you think!

He’s pathetic.

Is he related to that colored singer Little Dicky who sang that tune "Good Golly Aunt Polly" on the Ed Sullivan show ?

R17

You speak the truth. The next incarnation of "Gypsy", because it isn't already dead enough. will be a drag queen playing Mama Rose.

Porter will be tanned, rested, and ready. If we're lucky, it will close in previews and we'll be safe from another revival for ten years. If we're lucky.

When I think of Weimar cabaret song stylings I think of Billy Porter.

Alan Cumming, a gay (bi-sexual?) actor, already played the part gay and subversive, to rave reviews.

And he didn't have to play it as a flaming queen.

I guess Porter said, "I'll show YOU how to play it "queer". Cause you know, gay isn't good enough anymore.

The show isn't much and if sexy gay guy Orville Peck or faux alt/cult Alan Cummings can't make it work I have little hope for stunt queen Ms. Porter.

I find him repellent.

I enjoyed the refreshing masculine energy Orville Peck brought to the role. It was a nice counter to all the forced lip-smacking "queer" posturing that has infected so many performances of late. The thought of Billy Porter in that role gives me nightmares.

I'd take Orville any day...but I wish he'd lose that fucking mask.

[quote]It was a nice counter to all the forced lip-smacking "queer" posturing that has infected so many performances of late.

Is that how Redmayne played it? Thinking back to his performance on the Tonys, his interpretation just seemed to be more cartoonish than anything.

Porter just seems to be playing Porter, not really trying to inhabit the character.

I nominate Bad Bunny.

[quote] The show isn't much and if sexy gay guy Orville Peck or faux alt/cult Alan Cummings can't make it work

Alan Cummings DID make it work. It made him a star.

What would be radical now would be to go back to something like the original staging, when the actual events of Weimar and Nazi Germany were still fresh in many adult's minds. Now "Cabaret" is staged and performed by arrested adolescents.

Egads! The female lead is fat!

No thanks.

[quote]Three Negro leads now in the show; can't see that a summer-tourist draw. He is over-the-top tiresome.

We didn't come all the way from Great Neck to see a show with a bunch of schvartzes in it.

Make it go away. Wish it into the cornfield.

Oh, god, kill it with fire.

Good lord r34. Patti Labelle has really let herself go.

One presumes the producer has seen proof that Billy Porter can fill seats. It seems doubtful.

I do not know who or what that is

You're lucky r37! I wish I had no idea who Billy Porter is.