Profile for CreatureKitchen

Broadway Flash said: "The nyt didnt even mention redmayne which was weird. His performance didn’t get bad reviews"

A few reviewers were critical of Redmayne. Vulture wrote, “As the Emcee, Eddie Redmayne is on his own look-at-me planet. His singing voice never leaves a plugged-up, somewhat Muppet-y place somewhere behind his nose, and his physical palette is all coyly twirling fingers and hunched-up, leering Gollum poses.”

Yes, Redmayne a

QueenAlice said: "CHICAGO has been able to run for decades because of its unusually low weekly running costs. CABARET has one of the highestweekly running costs in Broaday history. You can not compare them."

Exactly. Chicago was incredibly cheap to mount and costs very little to run. Meanwhile, Cabaret is one of the most (if not the most) expensive revivals ever. Lately, we've seen large productions like that flounder when their big star/s leave (like Sweeney Tod

muscle23ftl said: "If any of you reading this would get a million dollars to leave a job, you'd be thrilled, but she is always out of touch and lives her privileged life and feels entitled."

I don't think many actors would be thrilled at getting cash instead of the opportunity to originate a once-in-a-lifetime role on Broadway that could massively boost their career. Especially not if you have to go through the ordeal of suing someone to get that money. Also,

See, this discussion is why I’d love a major production to cast a POC as the Emcee or Sally. Nazis were more than happy to use marginalized people as entertainment, such as watching them perform at a club (at least until they grew in power and shut down those clubs). Just like they were happy to acknowledge the athleticism of black Olympians (because it allowed them to exoticize those people and draw a distinction between them and the Aryans).

 

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I don't think anyone is questioning whether a black man from Harrisburg going to Berlin to find himself makes sense. That makes perfect sense, and there was a diverse array of foreigners coming to Berlin at that time. The big leap is Cliff's relationship with Ernst. Why would Ernst, a Nazi, not only immediately befriend a black man with no reservations, but also trust him with important errands and information? Why would he allow himself to be taught English by Cliff, who he would alm

Jordan Catalano said: "Echoing the question of ifAmerican critics are going to have similar differing opinions on “Sunset Boulevard”. That’s a production that I enjoyed some elements of (the cast, mainly) but just NEVER got the insane hype it’s received everywhere."

I thought Sunset was very interesting and had a lot of brilliant ideas, but funnily enough I had almost the opposite issue with it than I did with this revival of Cabaret. Cabaret

MrsSallyAdams said: "It sounds like there's some audience confusion as to how "literally" to take the Emcee and Kit Kat Chorus. Hal Prince saw them as metaphors. Bob Fosse as sex workers and pimps. Sam Mendes as queer artists who were victimized. This production seems to be going back to the "metaphor for Berlin." If a chorus person dresses flamboyantly in act one and then conservatively in act two, it's not saying Fritzi the showgirl suddenly embraced fas

I wasn't trying to paint Argentina with one broad brush, so I'm sorry if it came across that way. Of course, there were and are indigenous people, immigrants from other Latin American countries, as well as many other racial and ethnic groups in Argentina. Eva, the individual person, was not part of one of those marginalized ethnic groups.

I agree that it's pretty pointless to say whether or not Eva would have considered herself a POC, since the term didn't exist bac

Yep, I agree with basically everything you said, Ke3. I have no issue with the casting of any of the actresses I mentioned, and I think both shows should have diverse casts. It honestly just confused me that people seemed to think Pfeiffer's casting was more 'authentic', and it seems like there's a different kind of racism at play there. Like, she's 'exotic', so she's somehow automatically more authentic in the role. Or, all POC are more or less equivalent, so

Sorry to drag up a kind of old thread, but I was thinking about the comment earlier in this thread that the cast would need to be mostly Argentinian. The revival of Spider Woman planned at the Kennedy Center also got me thinking about that issue.

Solea Pfeiffer is half caucasian and half African-American, not Latina at all as far as I can tell. Sam Pauly is Puerto Rican and Native American and Eden Espinosa is Mexican. None of those, especially Pfeiffer, are particularly close to E

I was just answering a question, which is whether the Emcee is "supposed to be emaciated looking". And my answer was that it doesn't really matter, but I explained why some people might expect him to look that way. I also explicitly said that I liked Callum's performance?
Look, it's completely fair to say my other comments indicate an obsession with this show, but that last comment was just providing a piece of basic information to someone who asked, and was in no w