Dejo aquí un par de comentarios sobre este montaje que han puesto en DataLounge, ese maravilloso foro LGTB+ americano lleno de ingeniosas y avispadas víboras.
Parece ser que una de ellas ha visto el montaje y esto es lo que ha escrito:
After all the bad reviews and negative word-of-mouth, I had no desire to see the NYC immersive production of CABARET. But we were in Madrid and decided to check out the production there. Although it was in Spanish, I figured I know the show well enough that I could understand it. It also helped that ringside, cabaret table seats in the middle of the action were only $100 each, and a bottle of Rioja wine was $21--VERY much unlike the outrageous prices charged on Broadway. Also unlike Broadway, our phones were not covered with stickers, and we were allowed to take pictures during the pre-show hour of festivities with the Kit Kat girls and boys mingling with the audience and performing songs cut from this production. There were two hunky Kit Kat chorus boys who were happy to pose for pictures, including this cutie.
I thought the first act was terrific, with superb performances from all the cast. Our Sally looked like a young Catherine Zeta-Jones, Cliff looked like Michael Rupert, and Fraulein Schneider looked like Betty Buckley. The emcee was a trans woman, and she played the role like TIm Curry in Rocky Horror.
Where this production lost me was the second act. I enjoyed the opening number "Mein Herr" with Sally performing with the new Kit Kat Klub male hunks, but having her sing "Maybe This Time" as Cliff was leaving her made no sense at all. And her drugged-out or drunk (maybe both) performance of the title number seemed like a major mistake. But the worst was to come in the finale. As usual, Cliff sang a reprise of "Willkommen" and experienced a Follies-like Benjamin Stone breakdown with the other characters reprising bits of their numbers. Four of the cast members stripped naked and stood in the back area (including the two hunky boys and Herr Schultz, and then the emcee stripped stripped naked and sobbed while she joined them. That's when I learned that she was a trans woman who had had the surgery, with her vagina on display. I'm guessing that they were all bound for a concentration camp, but then there was a nuclear-explosion-like blast (bombs over Berlin perhaps), and the show ended. Directorial overkill, anyone?
Can anyone who saw the NYC or London stagings confirm that was how those productions ended?
Su reseña ha recibido estos comentarios:
- R486, you saw a completely different production. The NY/London one has a very different ending. Your one sounds like a riff on the Mendes production.
- A “young Catherine Zeta Jones?”
How is that possible???
Esto es un chiste que tienen en este foro. Se suelen burlar de Zeta Jones y su obsesión por no envejecer. Una broma recurrente en el foro es que Zeta Jones tiene 33 años.
- [quote]Where this production lost me was the second act. I enjoyed the opening number "Mein Herr" with Sally performing with the new Kit Kat Klub male hunks, but having her sing "Maybe This Time" as Cliff was leaving her made no sense at all.
I have never seen or heard of a production that had this song placement, which sounds ridiculous.
Estoy completamente de acuerdo con este comentario. "Maybe This Time" está muy mal colocado en este montaje. Como dije anteriormente, han colocado 4 números grandes (What Would You Do?, I Don't Care Much, Maybe This Time, Cabaret) uno detrás del otro y debido a esa saturación ninguno tiene la potencia e impacto que debería tener.
Enlace al hilo:
https://www.datalounge.com/thread/35889191-theatre-gossip-601-closing-notices-galore-