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.

Omg please someone cast Dean Cain in this role next

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

Alan did a modern-day update of Joel Grey's performance.

It wasn't revelatory.

R34 Wow! I thought Eartha Kitt was dead.

Miss Billious is getting her ass handed to her on TikTok.

The show was down more than $500,000 the week he took over and just as bad the second week. How will it hang on for two more months? He's no Lea Michele that's for sure.

[quote]He's no Lea Michele that's for sure.

And where is that racist cunt since Funny Girl closed?

Nowhere

I wouldn’t minding seeing Cynthia Erivo take a crack it.

Broadway's 'Cabaret' may still close earlier than expected even with the Billy Porter stunt casting.

It's not really his fault. Cabaret has done okay, but it's been a challenge. It's a good show, but there have been been too many revivals of Cabaret throughout the years (much the same as 'Gypsy'), and potential Broadway ticket buyers don't need to see the same show (albeit with different cast members) again.

How 'Chicago' keeps chugging along year after year is a mystery, except that the producers have managed some appealing stunt casting such as a few Real Housewives for busloads of tourists who think performances by semi-celebrities with minimum talent who have appeared on reality trash TV. is worth it

R40, I think Cumming’s Emcee was “revelatory” insofar as he created a new blueprint for the character that’s likely to be followed much more so going forward than Grey’s take on it (which was a lot less garish by comparison).

This is why I felt this iteration of “Cabaret” was so unnecessary, just a pointless exercise in trying to raise the level of outlandishness over the Mendes/Cumming version that no one asked for (and why Redmayne came across so badly on the Tonys). My fear is that we’ll likely never see a normal staging of this show ever again because every director will try to top what came before.

Im 10 years older than that bitch and look WAY better. That being said ,I did like him on Pose very much.

Listening to his audiobook at the moment. He is Diana-cream-video-guy level throughout. Hoping for some broken hearts club dish.

Diana-cream-video? Was she filmed smooshing?

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

R13 please, when Broadway reopened in 2021 after the Covid pandemic, post-George Floyd and several months into Biden's term, there were a slew of plays about blacks written by blacks that bombed, one after the other, despite getting raves from critics and a shitload of Tony nominations (Slave Play, Clyde's, Skeleton Crew, Ain't No Mo, Fat Ham, Jaja's African Hair Braiding, A Strange Loop, Topdog/Underdog, Purlie Victorious, etc.).

Of course, it didn't help that the message was often that white people are inherently evil.

Most theatergoers are white, so that was dumb of producers.

The NY theater audience is about 95% white.

So 5% need deporting? On it!

[quote] This is why I felt this iteration of “Cabaret” was so unnecessary, just a pointless exercise in trying to raise the level of outlandishness over the Mendes/Cumming version that no one asked for (and why Redmayne came across so badly on the Tonys). My fear is that we’ll likely never see a normal staging of this show ever again because every director will try to top what came before.

Precisely R40. They keep reviving Sam Mendes' Cabaret rather than the show itself.

I gotta hand it to the interview staff.

Who?

Omg this actually looks amazing.

News1 said is portrayal of Emcee is groundbreaking

This show is a proven winner and the gross is in the toilet. I know we’re getting towards the end of the run, but I think his comments have been careless and even foolish.

Just do the role Billy, don’t try to reinvent the wheel.

[quote]Jaja's African Hair Braiding

Are you kidding with this shit?? That was an actual play??!

Billy Porter makes me want to puke.

I listened to his singing in the first part of the clip, and it sounded so affected and over the top, and sort of like a plaintive wail. Just awful.

Meh.... repackaged Little Richard ... next

He rarely looks fabulous. He usually looks like a hot ass mess.

He needs to whiten his lower teeth, his uppers are super white and the lowers are mustard colored.

WHET Raúl Esparza?

Eventually most all of these drama queens get so critiqued and ridiculed, they get what they deserve. I only they'd learn from it.

[quote] I wouldn’t minding seeing Cynthia Erivo take a crack it.

We know you wouldn't, Cynthia.

I hope them residuals keep up with the disease. This borderline fat ho think he somebody cause he done got the monster to maintain his weight.

Has anyone on DL actually seen him in the show? If you did, are you too embarrassed to admit it?