CABARET sets closing with Porter and Wallace to star — Page 5

Was she screaming about his riffs?

iluvtheatertrash said: "binau said: "Didn’t Adam lambert also make similar ‘ad libs’ around the jokes? Something like these are the jokes in a dead pan way.

People seem to be loving hating him haha."

Lambert spoke out when people laughed at “she doesn’t look jewish at all”. He didn’t ad lib criticizing the material."

Yeah - any ad lib on Lambert’s part was fully in character. Billy is not in any sort of character.

They need to get Kander to right some new jokes before he dies. That joke about the wife, we’ve heard it so many times, it’s just not funny anymore. I have Joel grey vividly in my head saying it, as well as Alan

BorisTomashevsky said: "Well wherever it was, I owned my mistake. Enjoy losing elections for the rest of your life with an attitude like that, Carlos.

Enjoy this clip of an audience member screaming “No, No!” at the end of Billy’s I Don’t Care Much on Thursday night, everyone else.

https://www.tiktok.com/@faraway.fromtulsa/video/7536309756802108702

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Um, isn’t that Sally Bowles reacting to being pulled into the Emcee’s arms for an embrace? She is resisting the movement, but finally lets go and accepts her fate. I don’t think that was the audience, it was Marisha.

If I wrote a show and an actor maligned the material to the audience, I'd work very hard to get them fired as quickly as possible.

The Oracle is now suggesting that this video could be interpreted as racist.
Although I guess as Paul in Company says… “Ya see what ya look for.” So for people constantly looking to be offended, they’ll find it!

https://www.tiktok.com/@joseph_curran_/video/7537746685678701838

Jordan Catalano said: "Billy doesn’t do things as written, dahling. He does what he feels because he is iconic, he is the moment, he is legend, he is everything.


Or whatever BS he pays someone to tell him when he wakes up every day."

Hahahaha. I would love to see a Ryan Murphy backstage drama of this 'Cabaret revival', starring Billy Porter playing Billy Porter in a self-deprecating way with scenes such as this actually acted out. I think he and the show would be brilliant!

Anyone have the CliffsNotes on that?

LOLOLOL

binau said: "Interesting discussion

what's wrong with Billy Porter in CABARET? | the uncomfortable truth behind the Broadway backlash "

I really like MickeyJo's criticism skills. Sometimes I strongly disagree with them, but he's fantastic in the role he's created for himself.

In this video (which I happened to have watched in its entirety yesterday) he dips into discussion of racial micro aggressions as they might apply to the negativity around Porter's performance. I wanted to say the following to him, but couldn't find a way to do so privately, so here goes: What might be perceived as a racist undercurrent toward Porter's performance might actually be a pent up backlash against the very thing that MickeyJo gives credence in his commentary here: declaring something 'micro aggressive'. I think a lot of people are good and done with this mindset - to be clear, I am - and when it's invoked I think it provokes an anger that is too dangerous to state clearly on the internet because of the screeching (shade intended) keyboard activists - leading to clumsily expressed frustration that comes out sideways. We've created an environment where parts of human nature (such as perceiving cultural differences and liking them or being bothered by them) is so automatically vilified that it's stifling to discourse and people's real experience in the world - and I think that's counter productive to actual progress. "See the world as I do or you are evil" is not progress - it's actually fascist.

So no, I don't think the distaste for Porter's performance is racist - but it could be distorted by simmering frustrations rooted in the diminished freedom of expression we're living with these days. If you don't think black American racial politics work as a foundation for the Emcee character, you should be able to share that opinion without being labeled a Klansman.

Yeah I stopped watching the video yesterday as soon as he started lecturing us about the morality of making fun of Porter’s performance (Sweaty Oracle made a similar video which I also could not get through). From the clips I’ve seen and heard, Billy Porter absolutely deserves the hate he is getting for giving an incredibly self-indulgent performance that disrespects the brilliant material and is not worth a fraction of the hundreds of dollars audience members are paying.

And the ghost video someone made is not the least bit racist. I never would have thought about the KKK (the other one) had some rage-baiting keyboard warrior not brought up. Puh-leeze.