CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star- Page 3
CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#50CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 6/18/25 at 6:07pm
ER765 said: "RippedMan said: "You'd have to think about cast/orchestra size. "Just in Time" is a very small show. Cats, the original, ran at the Winter Garden or the Neil Simon, which are both bigger houses. It's not a small show. Not sure what this current revival would require, but I'd think they'd want more seats."
But this isn’t the original…
And if I’m counting correctly, this production has only 8 people in the orchestra."
Nor am I saying it is? Just saying it's not a tiny show by any means. You'd have to crunch the numbers and see if it makes sense. Oklahoma was a super stripped down version. Not sure if that falls in this category of not as I've not seen it. I'm sure the producers have cracked the numbers and will make the best call for their situation.
Skywalker3
Stand-by Joined: 5/4/08
#51CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 6/19/25 at 6:03am
The casting for the London version was so full of big (American) names. I'm so surprised the casting for Broadway couldn't find more big names. Or ask some of those artists back, even if it was just for 4 weeks...
Aimee Lou Wood, Maude Apatow, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, Cara Delevingne, Jake Shears...
#52CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 6/19/25 at 6:32am
Anericans may know some of those names, but they aren't drawn enough to spend big bucks on seeing them perform live, especially not a UK-specific performer like Rebecca Lucy Taylor.
Aimee Lou Wood would have been the most generally identifiable & enticing (due last season’s The White Lotus) but who’s to say that would be enough for people to pay Broadway prices.
I am big. It’s the REVIVALS that got small.
Skywalker3
Stand-by Joined: 5/4/08
#53CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 6/20/25 at 4:55am
True. But who knows Eva Noblezada outside the theater world? Or Auliʻi Cravalho outside the families who watch Moana.
verywellthensigh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/22
#54CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 6/20/25 at 11:41am
Is Billy Porter turning into the next James Corden?
Discuss...
#55CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 6/20/25 at 11:58am
At least he's actually a gay fay and not just doing it for the cameras...
#56CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 6/20/25 at 12:05pm
verywellthensigh said: "Is Billy Porter turning into the next James Corden?
Discuss..."
Not sure, but if it is, no complaints here. They both had reputations for being less than kind or perhaps not the most professional to those deemed not on their level long before the public caught on. Both have talent, Tonys and Emmys, but they are not irreplaceable. Cannot speak to Corden’s situation, but Porter’s behavior was clocked long before he collected any tchotchkes from the industry.
#57CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 6/20/25 at 7:49pm
TheatreFan4 said: "Again, Billy is supposed to be filming Hunger Games in what I believe is not a small role next month. Is he going to be scheduled to be out a good chunk of this run?
Also LOL to the guy who emphatically said it wasn't them."
LOL You people are really pathetic! Yea that guy is me and was told it was not them when I asked an industry friend.
I was told a new cast announcement was coming and it did a day or so later. I asked the friend who's replacing and he would not say and then asked - hope it's not Billy and that girl and he told me nope. That's what I then shared. Got it. Playing around no sense of humor.
Move on! People take everything so seriously-chill.
Now back to Porter and Wallace
Closing with Billy and the other girl (Wallace) who I don't know is a big disappointment and I doubt this will last for the remaining scheduled run and close earlier. They should have just closed with Orville and Eva and market as last 4 weeks with them! They needed a better casting director with fresh ideas such as the team over at Hadestown as they know what they're doing and continue to cast with interesting ideas. I'm surprised that the show didn't do better wth Orville and Eva because they are AMAZING and gave the show a much needed lift and both received widespread praise from critics and audiences so what happened ... Is it marketing or what?
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KevinKlawitter
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/20
#59CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/21/25 at 4:33pm
At first I thought this was a clip from 30 Rock
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Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#60CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/21/25 at 4:46pm
Billy looks amazing. Looking forward.
#61CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/21/25 at 5:53pm
FYI - Pedro Garza remains on as Cliff for the whole first week while Calvin Leon Smith continues his recovery from shingles-induced facial paralysis
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#62CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/21/25 at 10:14pm
quizking101 said: "FYI - Pedro Garza remains on as Cliff for the whole first week while Calvin Leon Smith continues his recovery from shingles-induced facial paralysis"
The reviews for Pedro have been so great, I hate the circumstances, but it's nice to see Pedro shine.
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#63CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/22/25 at 6:16am
Pedro and Eva were fantastic together on Saturday night (and the crowd was ENERGIZED, but in a good way).
There was a bit more visible unease (in character) than Calvin, and he definitely knew how to ride that ebb and flow until Cliff goes into survival mode toward the end of Act II. If you see Pedro, you are in great hands.
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#64CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/22/25 at 9:39pm
Looking forward to hearing the Billy + Marisha reports from tonight.
Oh look, a bibu!
#65CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/23/25 at 5:23am
This post seems to provide some evidence to the hypothesis that maybe Billy’s performance in Cabaret was better towards the end of the run (when I saw it) than at the beginning.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWestEnd/s/CPM0g03Q7Z
Very interested to see what’s about to happen here in New York. Ticket sales look challenging and Billy Porter has already managed alienate people through his controversial comments.
Never a dull moment in New York City theatre.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#66CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/23/25 at 10:03am
This Reddit thread seems to be giving a lot of the first performance reviews. The TL; DR;
- Mixed on Billy, raves for Marisha.
- Billy’s voice is tired, and he apparently blew an (added) higher note at the end of “I Don’t Care Much” and it did NOT go over well with the audience.
- Billy’s characterization of the Emcee as an expat from from the Jim Crow American South left many feeling that he lost the plot.
- Marisha blew the house down with the title song, as expected.
- They both came out the stage door fairly quickly and signed
https://www.reddit.com/r/Broadway/comments/1m6vmsw/cabaret_intermission_billy_porter_marisha_wallace/
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#67CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/23/25 at 10:08am
I really hope Marisha continues to wow audiences here. She’s really someone who deserves to be a true Broadway and west end star.
#68CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/23/25 at 10:40am
Porter playing the Emcee as an American expat makes absolutely no sense. The character is the symbolic representation of Germany. It also feels like a slap in the face to the history of black Germans who were persecuted during the war.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
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#69CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/25/25 at 3:23am
Example seats available for tonight - they will sell most of these by curtain but I wouldn't say it looks healthy for the first Friday night of a new cast. 
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#70CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/25/25 at 9:44am
I don’t see how this doesn’t close by Labor Day. Aside from the lead producer also being the theatre owner, it doesn’t really make much financial sense to run it through one of the bleaker parts of the season.
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ErmengardeStopSniveling
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
#71CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/25/25 at 10:03am
Call_me_jorge said: "I don’t see how this doesn’t close by Labor Day. Aside from the lead producer also being the theatre owner, it doesn’t really make much financial sense to run it through one of the bleaker parts of the season."
At this point keeping it open another 6 weeks isn't going to make any meaningful difference. Where sales are currently can't be THAT far off from their projections. Moving up a closing date even earlier is also a bad look to the artists and their agents, and that DOES mean something to a producer like ATG.
BorisTomashevsky
Broadway Star Joined: 4/30/22
#72CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/25/25 at 10:08am
Wow that’s very poorly sold for around 16 hours before a Friday night show. At a glance I’d guess it’s 35% sold. I suppose it will be at TKTS and they’ll move a few more.
#73CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/25/25 at 3:53pm
A few hours before curtain. I think they will likely not be able to move most of the mezz tickets before curtain tonight but hopefully the TKTS booth can pick up the slack. 
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
BorisTomashevsky
Broadway Star Joined: 4/30/22
#74CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star
Posted: 7/25/25 at 3:55pm
That’s a decent improvement. I wonder who buys table tickets last minute on a whim like that. Mu$t be nice!
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