Ruth Leon recommends… Tribute to Joel Grey and John Kander – Tony Awards
UncategorizedCabaret at the Tonys
At last week’s Tony Awards there were Lifetime Achievement awards for both John Kander, who, with his late partner, Fred Ebb, wrote the classic score of the musical Cabaret, and for Joel Grey, whose astounding performance as the EmCee in the original Broadway show , in the West End, and in the subsequent movie, brought that score to vivid life. There have been many revivals of this great show and one of the best is still playing in London at the Kit Kat Club, otherwise known as the Playhouse Theatre in the West End. Here is a charming video featuring the Emcees of London’s CABARET celebrating John Kander and Joel Grey’s Tony Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Wonderful! It was special and moving when they both came out to receive the audience’s applause. They had given beautiful speeches at an earler event. You can read them here.
https://playbill.com/article/read-john-kander-and-joel-greys-complete-emotional-lifetime-achievement-tony-award-acceptance-speeches
Joel Grey is a creepy, minor talent, whose one claim to fame was being a creepy, minor figure in a movie 50 years ago. Nobody cares if he, or anyone else is gay (big surprise). Go find something else to “recommend”. After all, this is just another one of your obvious “recommendations” of things that everyone knows about. Isn’t there some mass appeal show at the Metropolitan Museum for you to “discover”?
This is far, far better as a representation of Wiemar Republic decadence – it’s not American kitsch like “Cabaret”.
From the Netflix series “Babylon Berlin”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdM36y-Dkyg
Just out of curiosity…just how old were you during the Weimar Republic to be so knowledgeable?
This is not scepticism, it’s just unadulterated bitchiness.
Wow…and Mr. Grey says such nice things about you.
And what’s your beef with Ruth Leon???
Why don’t you use your own name if you feel so strongly? What are you afraid of? That an offended artist will bang your front door down?
His was an iconic interpretation of a major role on Broadway, thankfully preserved on film. Even if it was Mr. Grey’s only accomplishment as an actor (it wasn’t, by the way), he has earned his celebrity and place in theater history.
What have you accomplished in your career?
I think Cabaret was a very good take on the amused decadence that was pre-war Berlin. Known as the reddest city outside of Moscow and a bohemian hotbed of anarchy and revolution, its citizens loved to poke fun at the crumbling established order and Joel Grey portrayed that brilliantly. That attitude still exists today in Berlin if you know where to look. I know Germany quite well.