New Cabaret Replacements

[BrdwyThtr]

New Cabaret Replacements#0

Posted: 9/20/03 at 10:11am

I've just heard that Cabaret is looking to extend to the end of the year with Toni Collette as Sally and Taye Diggs as the Emcee.

[Alix]

re: New Cabaret Replacements#1

Posted: 9/20/03 at 10:57am

Where did you hear about this BrdwyThtr?? I have tix for Nov. @ and I'm really hoping its the last show! Please let me know if this is from a website or article anywhere, thanx!

Alix

[BrdwyThtr]

re: re: New Cabaret Replacements#2

Posted: 9/20/03 at 11:09am

I heard this off of TalkinBroadway.com

[PJ]

re: re: re: New Cabaret Replacements#3

Posted: 9/20/03 at 1:02pm

You can't take people from ATC seriously...or anyone on this board for that matter. There's been no official announcement yet on who's taking over for Susan Egan and Jon Secada. They'll most likely extend their "closing date" for a bit longer. For some reason, I don't see them closing the show that close to the holiday season.

[Dollypop]

re: re: re: re: New Cabaret Replacements#4

Posted: 9/20/03 at 1:06pm

Ah, the wise words from "Pajama"

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[Sunfish]

New Cabaret Replacements#5

Posted: 9/20/03 at 1:27pm

I read that post as well and I think it was "tongue-in-cheek" as a dream end-of-show wish......

[BwayTheatre11]

re: New Cabaret Replacements#6

Posted: 9/20/03 at 1:32pm

You will just have to wait for the "official" announcement.

CCM '10!

[ChristineDaae]

re: re: New Cabaret Replacements#7

Posted: 9/20/03 at 1:55pm

Extending Cabaret????? Awsome!!!

"Life will be frozen peaches and cream. Baby, dream Your Dream" ~ SC

[BwayTheatre11]

re: re: re: New Cabaret Replacements#8

Posted: 9/20/03 at 1:57pm

MAYBE!! Read my previous post.

CCM '10!

[PJ]

re: re: re: re: New Cabaret Replacements#9

Posted: 9/20/03 at 3:56pm

Not to be offensive towards anyone, but is it historically correct to cast an African American as a Jewish German emcee? I know there have been African American's who've played Roxie or Velma in Chicago, but those characters aren't anything like the Emcee. Could Taye Diggs do this?

[magruder]

re: New Cabaret Replacements#10

Posted: 9/20/03 at 4:13pm

First off, as far as that rumor goes, I had heard talk of Taye Diggs for another show altogether. But I wouldn't make an issue of the Emcee's ethnicity, even with the very literal ending of the current revival. The Emcee is a bit of a limbo figure anyway...a device that pops up to comment ironically on the action. Moreover, a great actor can make you forget about issues of skin color. Case in point: I once saw a production of Fiddler on the Roof with a black Tevye. In about two seconds of stage time, I believed him as a Russian Jew.

"Gif me the cobra jool!"

[PJ]

re: re: New Cabaret Replacements#11

Posted: 9/20/03 at 10:08pm

For the record so this isn't taken the wrong way by ANYONE:
I'd be all for Taye coming in and closing Cabaret. I have no problem whatsoever w/ an African AM playing the Emcee. I was just seeing what anyone else thought of the casting of him. Plus, I say bring in Toni. I'm sure she'd be great.

[Dollypop]

re: re: re: New Cabaret Replacements#12

Posted: 9/20/03 at 10:25pm

I'm sure the producers are listening to every word you say, Pajama. In fact they are clinging to those words like ivy on a fence!

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)

[PJ]

re: re: re: re: New Cabaret Replacements#13

Posted: 9/20/03 at 10:31pm

Buzz off old man.

[Dollypop]

re: re: re: re: re: New Cabaret Replacements#14

Posted: 9/20/03 at 10:34pm

You're so adorable when you're vexed, Pajama!

"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)