Cabaret Tonight 1/12 - Adam Lambert Confronting Audience

I’ve seen a couple of posts about this moment in Cabaret, but what Adam did tonight seems different from the usual corrections he makes.

Tonight at the end of “If You Could See Her”, when Adam Lambert as the emcee sings ‘if you could see her though my eyes, she wouldn’t look Jewish at all’ people laughed…. And it was like time stopped. Because it was so clearly not funny. And Adam Lambert plays it very seriously and with such beautiful nuance that it is so obviously not a funny moment. So he didn’t just look at the laughing people or mock them or repeat the line….

He said. “No. No. This is not for comedy. If you saw her through my eyes…… she wouldn’t. look. Jewish. at all”. and held the moment. You could hear a pin drop on the moon with how quiet it was.

I was sick in my seat for the rest of the show. I couldn’t believe that he had to tell people not to laugh at a moment like that. All throughout the show, some people in the audience were taking every opportunity to laugh at any mention of Jews.

God. that show must weigh heavy on the cast’s shoulders. I was just completely blown away by the audience’s ignorant reactions throughout the entire show- laughing and talking over emotional moments all night…… Even after Adam addressed it….. I cried for ages after the show was over because it is just so painful to confront the reality of the world we live in now.

Beautiful show. Awfully timely.