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| In reply to: re: he fits in as a perform who'll have played the Emcee in one of the Broadway productions... - lordofspeech 05:55 am EST 01/22/25 | |
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| A couple more things about CABARET’s ‘queer legacy.’ Joel Grey, who won a Tony and an Oscar for creating the Emcee, was known as straight and fathered an actress-daughter Jennifer Grey, and then ‘came out’ as gay less than 10 years ago. And John Van Druten who adapted Isherwood’s stories into I AM A CAMERA the play seems (from Wikpedia) to have been in both a straight marriage and some gay relationships during his very accomplished lifetime. According to Wikpedia, the idea to insert Isherwood’s gay/homosexual characteristics into the CABARET film came from the producers, who asked for it from Jay Presson Allen, when she was invited to adapt the work into a screenplay. So there are a lot of swirling stories about a queer strain or subliminal source in the Cabaret/I am a Camera/Berlin Stories. Plus there was Alan Cumming’s very influential work as an acclaimed actor in the big revival in which the Emcee had a lot of gay/homosexual/queer ramifications. And one has to factor in the early Broadway musical version of CABARET in which Bert Convy played a decidely heterosexual (and American) central character (Sally was British in this one). And one must also acknowledge the brilliant director Harold Prince’s hand which cast Joel Grey, guided him in his outrageous choices which skirted (sic) androgyny and may’ve subliminally pushed ‘queerness’ into the ambience before anyone even knew what the academic idea of ‘queerness’ was. One could also research Eric Rohm, what we might now call a very ‘out gay’ man and close personal friend and political ally of Adolf Hitler. Rohm’s rise in the Party and Hitler’ sudden turning on him and Rohm’s unecpected execution might provide clues about how ‘queer legacy’ was and then abruptly was not ok in the culture of the Third Reich. |
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