Billy Porter IS The Emcee in “Cabaret”

Ugh.

Not my favorite celebrity, but he is talented and I bet he will be good in the role. He just try's too hard in his public appearances which is all people pay attention to.

It's a small role - just a guy in makeup shouting on stage, so no acting involved.

It's called "Stunt Casting."

I'll pass

Perhaps he will relocate to the UK as Ellen did.

R3 clearly has never watched Cabaret. That’s far from the truth

Uh, ugly.

That blue eye shadow I wore in the 70s. I'd never wear it again.

I saw the production in London. I also left at half time. I can't imagine Billy Porter will make it any better.

That’s right. I’m the lead. It’s what I do. It’s what I deserve!

[quote]I saw the production in London. I also left at half time. I can't imagine Billy Porter will make it any better. —Non Theater Gay

You must be a sports fan. It's called the Interval, not halftime.

Good luck to him, will be hard work after my iconic performance

r12, it was a play on words, but I'm also a sports fan.

Is this West End or not?

Misread that as Marcia Wallace. I’d see THAT.

London = West End

Fabulous casting - pre-war Berlin was positively heaving with people of color.

lol r12. To my church choir director, I once called the Processional the “opening number.”

At first, I read it as “Marcia Wallace,” which would be much more interesting:

She looks like one of my turds after eating Boo Berry cereal.

He's got a limited range, but this is well within his wheelhouse, so good for him.

Their were no schvartzes in der Homeland!

Keep it gay! Keep it gay!

Ugh... pretentious drama queen. Pass...

Billy isn't Sally Bowles?

I saw BP on a Law & Order episode (SVU, maybe?) and his acting was so amateurish my jaw dropped.

Make him go away.

London’s West End is the equivalent of New York’s Broadway. Just because a show appears in Lindon does NOT mean it is on the West End. Just like a production in New York is NOT necessarily on Broadway. There is a major difference in stature and it is almost ALWAYS indicated in the show’s press.

17 WRONG

The modern Face of AIDS is even more hideous than it was in the 80s.

R18 you’re an idiot, there were plenty of black people in the pre-war jazz scene in Berlin, Paris and London

Where did I say that there weren’t, R32?

Absolutely, R32! I’m so hoping to see Idris Elba as Baron Maximilian von Heune, Chris Rock as Brian Roberts and DL favorite Viola Davis as Natalia Landauer and a rousing performance of “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” by Kendrick Lamar as the Hitler Youth singer.

Yesterday, today and tomorrow belongs to me.

Nobody wants to see his tits.

They can keep him.

Remember that shitty Hamptons house he had to unload? A gal has got to eat.

I would have expected her as Sally Bowels.

Yay!

Well, it's really just a question of whether a person can convey the cynical, egomaniacal, preening, fascist-tool, survivalist mentality of the Master of Ceremonies.

Three out of five apparently is good enough.

R40 - he looks like shit - and that clip's ridiculousness is right on brand for him.

Honestly though - what reactions does he expect to get online? The internet is vicious anyway and he just pokes the bear at every chance he can.

I'm glad his husband left him - imagine trying to breathe air in any room with him in it? He'd snatch it from your lungs.

I see Miss Porter has gotten new teeth…

His fard isn't very Weimar.

Fucking gross. I hate how the woke have dug their claws into this play.

R33 by conveying your disbelief with a Lucille Bluth eye role? Just take the L, you ignoramus

Black persons in a jazz cabaret, my stars!

You do know blacks invented jazz?

My sincerest apologies R46 and R47 - I'm sure that Billy will bring his amazing talent to the role.

I am so looking forward to the laudatory reviews!

Appreciate being educated by you, R47, although I do know that we no longer refer to people of color as "blacks'.

How did " People of color" come to pertain to only one race when there are so many others?

It doesn’t, what the fuck are you on about r50?

How pissed do you think little Billy is that he didn’t get the lead in Wicked? And you fucking know he felt he deserved it.

He's a gay minstrel show. He makes me sick.

So, R40, is the “I’m shitting a peach pit” look his go-to expression these days?

[quote] I do know that we no longer refer to people of color as "blacks'.

Are they back to being called Negroes?

[quote] I hate how the woke have dug their claws into this play.

If the woke could time travel back to Weimar Berlin they would be triggered AF.

There was a recent Netflix documentary on Weimar Berlin. They tried to make it all about trans, i.e. trans were at the center of everything. It was nauseating.

Transgression was kind of the point of Weimar. I get being sick of trans, but they belong in a story about Weimar Germany.

As a footnote, r58, and what were considered "trans" then were homosexual men, because homosexual men were believed to have women's souls or some such bullshit.

Not sure where you get the idea that the point of Weimar Germany was transgression. Ever read anything about the era?

There were some, r32, not plenty, and since when was Cabaret about jazz?

Porter as the emcee doesn't bother me, but this production is all about the American-dominated 2020s and very little to do with the 1930s, let alone Berlin. I don't expect any historical authenticity from it.