Davey Is Like 100% An Insomniac. But Not In The Up-at-ungodly-hours Way In The Has-to-go-to-bed-at-8:30-else-his-melatonin-wont-work

Davey is like 100% an insomniac. But not in the up-at-ungodly-hours way in the has-to-go-to-bed-at-8:30-else-his-melatonin-won’t-work way.

Dude is like the princess and the pea, the room has to be pitch dark, he needs an audiobook, the covers have to be the right kind of cosy otherwise sleep evades him.

Woke cabaret be like if you could see THEM through my eyes

YESYESYES GRRREE!!! Also an afab emcee who’s costumes vary between like full suit and tails (but no shirt, so just the trousers jacket waistcoat and bowtie) and like full on marlena deitrich esque showgirl costumes (sparkly jacket, waistcoat, bowtie but like hot pants and fishnets) and like everywhere in between. But their makeup/hair contrasts how masculine their presentation is - at their most masculine outfit wise they have like a full finger waves set and like the most feminine style of makeup possible while still like staying cohesive with the whole vibe and while at their most overtly feminine they’re like…the closest they can get to visibly masculine.

Emcees that do gender!!!! Weirdly!!!!! Weird gender!!!!

desperately need to play the emcee but an emcee where its ambiguous if they’re a man or a woman because even though their body their face and their voice are a woman’s they act and dress like a man and when the show begins they’re barely wearing anything (but in a masculine way with full on body hair mens clothing tits out and all) but throughout the show they start dressing more modestly and feminine and covering up more and more and at around I Don’t Care Much they’re wearing a dress and looking like a woman and the question ends up being is this character a man being played by an actress who’s a woman? is this character a woman crossdressing as a man? is this character’s gender something else and they’re hiding it because of what’s happening around them? who knows their fate is sealed either way

Oh fun fact! Joel Grey confirmed in the interview he did alongside eddie redmayne. that his emcee isn’t a nazi!!! He’s a horrible person but his emcee is supposed to be jewish. Imo he’s conforming too facism as a self defence mechanism, if i can just make this club right *maybe* they won’t come for me next. But they will. And i think deep down he knows they will.

okay i know the cabaret 1993 musical ending is wayy more impactful than the 1972 film ending AT FACE VALUE but the mirror is such a good nod to the 1966 musical set design

boris aronson ate w this. forcing the audience to see themselves in a horror story about human corruption... GENIUS.

and then the film, the emcee distorted by the mirror after falling for fascism, obviously the nazis reflected in it. and when u put it into context w that stage design u can connect it back to the audience. this was flawless

and he tells the studio it’s you or him and they say it’s you

Imagine, you're an actor who was hired to play a role in a movie, but the director obviously hates you and wants your role for himself. He is constantly cold toward you and tries to one-up you in everything. One day, he comes up to you, asks "Have you ever done a backflip?" You haven't. "It's easy," he says. He leaps into the air, does a backflip, and lands square on his face.

This was the actual experience of Joel Grey in Cabaret (1972).

Wishing everyone who says liza minelli was too good a singer to play sally a very shut up and watch the damn movie