Caberet

[WiCkEd4LyFfE]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 11:58am

Just wanted to tell you guys if you have IO cable turn on channel 301. Joel Grey looks really well....Different!

[JakeB]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 1:08pm

Could that be because it was 30 years ago and people.. change?

[DefyingGravity2]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 1:11pm

Cabaret is incredible. but yes, i would understand him looking different. hahah

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 3:36pm

Funny how, in its time, this was considered truly edgy filmmaking, paricularly for the Michael York character ("Oooo, he might be gay! Better tie down the horses, Marge; we don't want them gettin' all skeered-like!")

[WiCkEd4LyFfE]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 4:57pm

I don't mean different in age, its just that with all the makeup and his weird accent. I was just saying.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 5:43pm

Actually, that's an extraordinarily famous role and he is the person most identified with it. You must be very young . To many of us, Mr. Grey in that makeup and accent was a most familiar sight for many years as he did the Broadway show, the movie, the Broadway revival and national tour.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 5:45pm

Not to mention winning a Tony and an Oscar!

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 6:46pm

For me and a generation or two of theatre and movie fans, Grey IS the MC in Cabaret, no matter how Cumming or anyone else tries to reinterpret the role. Grey was there at the very inception of the show and was integral in creating the role along with Hal Prince, Kander & Ebb, and Joe Masteroff the book writer (the role didn't even exist in the original draft of the book -- Prince and Grey created it in rehearsals). Grey forever owns that role and everybody else merely walks in his footsteps.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 6:52pm

The movie version of Cabaret is a bit creepy. I saw it AFTER I saw the show, and it kind of creeped me out. Joel Grey was incredible in it, as was Liza. Her "Mein Herr" and "Cabaret" are absolutely fantastic!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 7:07pm

First of all, please, please, PLEASE change your spelling of Cabaret. It's killing me.

That said.... I adore that show SOOOO much (clearly, lol)! Chasing_rainbows and I lament our loss nearly ever night. I miss it so much. I've never actually seen the movie, though. I know this is stupid - and I hate to admit this - but I'm afraid that the difference between the movie and the revival that I fell in love with will bother me. Eventually I will see it, though. I've heard the soundtrack and it's wonderful.

[Alix]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 10:18pm

I like the movie, but don't really even think of it as the same story as the show. And while Joel Grey was great in the movie that is NOT the same role as it is now...well was. *tear* ahhhhh I miss CABARET!!! I'm trying to get my dad to take me to Korea to see the Asian Tour...lol, you never know :)

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 10:45pm

I've never seen the movie all the way through. It's really painful to watch just because it is so powerful.

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 10:48pm

Yea, the spelling is kind of bothering me too. I guess I'll just go to the Off-Topic Board then. Cheerio!

[PJ]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 11:26pm

I look at the movie and the stage show as two completely different pieces. The film, which I love, is a pretty crappy stage-to-screen adaptation if you look at it as a stage-to-screen film.

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 7/5/04 at 11:31pm

The movie version of Cabaret is a bit creepy

LOL, really? I found the stage revival to be the creepy version, in a good way.

I agree that the stage and film versions of Cabaret are too completely different entities. I love the stage revival for its darkness, its sleazy, redlight-district sexiness, its danger and its ominous tone, which I found missing in the movie. But I love the film version for the chemistry between "Brian" and Sally, Michael York, the adorable subplot and the charisma of Liza Minelli.

Posted: 7/5/04 at 11:57pm

Minnelli, not Minelli.

It's Liza with 'Z' not Lisa with an 'S', 'Cause Lisa with an 'S' goes SSno'ZZ
It's 'Z' instead of 'S', 'Lie' instead of 'Lee', It's simple as can be, see, Liza

It's M-I-Double N, then-E-Double L-I, You double up the N, thats nn, not noo
Then E, double L, end it with an I, That's the way you say Minnelli
Liza Minnelli, it's Italian, blame it on papa, what can I do

Ok, I'm done.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 12:17am

you can edit thread titles as well as posts, correct?!?!? There was LONG thread for a while on the various CABARET incarnations, it's probably long gone, very interesting reading.