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re: So if Sally Bowles isn't supposed to be a good singer....

Posted by:	PlayWiz 06:40 pm EDT 03/31/14
In reply to:	re: So if Sally Bowles isn't supposed to be a good singer.... - AlanScott 06:14 pm EDT 03/31/14

Harold Prince said he had a certain performer in mind when the Emcee role was created who was someone he had seen in Germany I believe. Joel Grey I believe when it came time to actually creating that character recalled some very embarrassingly bad Borsht Belt comic he had seen perform--sort of the type that radiates "flop sweat". However Prince and Grey had it in their minds, it pretty much needed to be suggested rather than totally realized in the musical telling; otherwise, the performance would have suffered. Grey's brilliance was giving a fantastic performance while suggesting a weird, eccentric sexually-charged Bacchus/Pied Piper who was fun to watch but was leading the audience down a very dangerous road.

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