CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star — Page 3

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...

True. But who knows Eva Noblezada outside the theater world? Or Auliʻi Cravalho outside the families who watch Moana.

At least he's actually a gay fay and not just doing it for the cameras...

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?

At first I thought this was a clip from 30 Rock

FYI - Pedro Garza remains on as Cliff for the whole first week while Calvin Leon Smith continues his recovery from shingles-induced facial paralysis

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.

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.

I really hope Marisha continues to wow audiences here. She’s really someone who deserves to be a true Broadway and west end star.

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.

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.

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.