Cabaret Saturday Night January 11th

Last night at the end of “If You Could See Her”, when Adam Lambert as the Emcee sings "If you could see her though my eyes, she wouldn’t look Jewish at all’ there were snickers of laughter in a few spots in the audience and a hushed silence elsewhere. Adam repeated the line, adding "No...No..This is not for comedy. If you saw her through my eyes, she wouldn’t. look. Jewish. at all”. After the second time, silence.

Has he been doing this at every show?

He has been ad-libbing more as he has settled in the role.

Last time I went, he threw in a few exasperated (in character) jabs at the audience when they were otherwise non-responsive to the moments whers audience engagement is really needed.

Yeah, this has been a discussion on Reddit for a bit now. Whenever there is laughter, he finds some way to make those people uncomfortable. Sometimes, it's just a glare, sometimes he does a mocking cackle, sometimes he repeats the line.

quizking101 said: "He has been ad-libbing more as he has settled in the role.

Last time I went, he threw in a few exasperated (in character) jabs at the audience when they were otherwise non-responsive to the moments whers audience engagement is really needed."

I would absolutely hate that. If you can't land the moment and need to goad the audience into getting the kind of response you think they should have then it's a failure of the actor, the direction, or both.

The article by Grey is very haunting. I was set to revisit the Kit Kat Club last week after seeing the original cast in London, but the turn of events over the last few months have left me sick to my stomach even thinking about it. Grey’s reference to people who are resigned to irony out of exhaustion and political overwhelm is very much what I’m also feeling - sheer defeat and difficulty accepting “other opinions” when it comes to the value of another human being.


I wish the message of Cabaret held an uncomfortable mirror up to more people, but I have resigned myself to thinking that nothing will wake people up from the nationalist fatigue being experienced in so many countries - especially in what has been known as the leader of the free world. Arguably “the greatest country on earth” that showed others the possibilities of life in a free nation. And now… wilkommen.