| re: Where does Orville Peck fit into the queer legacy of ‘Cabaret’? | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 07:58 pm EST 01/22/25 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 07:53 pm EST 01/22/25 | |
| In reply to: re: Where does Orville Peck fit into the queer legacy of ‘Cabaret’? - Chromolume 06:45 pm EST 01/22/25 | |
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| Perhaps the "Telephone Song" had some gay guys contacting each other in the original Ron Fields choreography? There are the lines sung by cast members "Would you like to buy a girl a drink?" "Would you like a buy a boy a drink", which depends who they are being sung to, of course. The MC role does include things like "the girls taking off all their clothing" which might indicate bisexuality (or just aiming at the straight guys in the audience to shout out). His entire role, all of his patter and songs take place on stage at the cabaret, nothing off-stage at all. So perhaps it was his manner, his makeup, hair, costume and physical manner of moving that had the critics referring to him with all those terms AlanScott mentioned above. I don't believe it's in the text though, unless Joel Grey and the others either improvised or had some staging which he winked, manhandled in some way or otherwise flirted with some of the guys on stage or in the audience. But apparently critics going all in with the kind of debauchery represented by the cabaret included what they considered to be the sex life of the MC. |
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