Adam Lambert shouts laughter at the anti -Semitic “cabaret” line
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Adam Lambert shouts laughter at the anti -Semitic “cabaret” line

Adam Lambert shouted an audience member at “Cabaret.” Photo: Julieta Cervantes

The audience members continue to laugh at an anti -Semitic lyric about Jewish people in Broadway’s “Cabaret” – and the main actor Adam Lambert even recently praised a theater guest for giggles.

We hear that during a new performance, Star barked an audience member under the melody, “If you could see her”, where Lambert’s emcee character sings a love song to a gorilla-closed with the intestinal line line, “If you could see her through my eyes She does not see Jewish at all. ”

The audience member giggled at the line, “If you could see her through my eyes she would not see Jewish at all.” Photo: Julieta Cervantes

A witness tells that Lambert, without breaking character, turned to the laughing patron in the crowd and said, “No. This is not comedy. Be attentive. ”

Podcaster David Rigano – who was in the audience – documented Incident on InstagramDescribes the audience’s reaction as “not nervous laughter, not shocked laughter, but people who found the surprise that it was a Jewish gorilla legitimately funny.”

Some who were at the exhibition also weighed the social media post.

Several audience members have thanked Lambert for standing up against Cacklers. Getty -Pictures for Glaad

Another witness said, “I was at this performance and was so very happy (Lambert) said what he said. It was awful that he had paused and the audience started laughing harder and harder. Scary.”

Another comment read: “I was there too. It was really hard to hear (people) laugh for so long on that line. Adam did a good job. ”

Another commentator who had been to another performance, chimped in, “when that scene happened, and I turned to each other and was in shock. I was Jewish, was in awe of the laughter and just told my friend “It’s not fun, people shouldn’t laugh.” We are grateful that (Lambert) did not break character and expressed how it is not a joke or something to laugh at. ”

Page Six previously reported that Lambert gave laughing audience members an icy stirring. Getty Images

Lambert has responded to social media by saying: “I really consider it a privilege to work with such a talented role and creative team at a show that has so much to say about what is happening right now.”

He added: “It has been relevant since it premiered in the late 60s and I hope the audience goes away and thinks and feels empathy against how marginalized groups can be sin as a political strategy … It is my hope and motivation every show; To enter into an irresistible society and then make you miss us when we are stolen from you. Maybe just we can change some senses. “

Page Six previously reported That the show, set at The Weaky Kit Kat Club during the emergence of fascism in Germany in the Weimar era, has had problems with the audience that laughed, and that Lambert had stared at the alleged perpetrators.

The cooling line has received Chuckles at the latest performances. RCF / Mega

A source told Page Six in November that Lambert, “paused and had to” stare down “audience members who laughed inappropriately at (the line).”

“He gave the guy the Iciest death I have ever seen,” said a witness.

We hear that this is the first time Lambert orally punished someone.

Joel Gray, who played in the original “Cabaret” wrote an essay in the New York Times In November and urges the shocking change in the audience’s reactions to the musical themes.

Joel Gray played in the original show and was also in the movie 1972 with Liza Minnelli. Getty Images

“When we first performed it. . . The crowd was pushing and recovering, ”Gray wrote. “It was too offensive, too raw, too cruel. I hear from friends in the current Broadway production of “Cabaret” that the line again gets an audible answer, but of another type. “

Gray added, “My first assessment, when the word first reached me about this unusual reaction, was that this must be the triumphant laughs from the complicated, suddenly drunk in power and not afraid to let their bigotry become known. Now I find myself considering other hypotheses. Are these the hollow, worried laughs from an audience that has withdrawn to the comfort of irony and liberation? Are these vocalized signals about acceptance? Audible white flags of surrender to the condition? A collective axis of indifference? “

Gray recently wrote an OP-ed about the current production. Getty Images

“I honestly do not know which of these versions I think is most ominous, but everyone should serve as a dazzling reminder of how dangerously it is to accept Bigotry when we are emotionally exhausted and politically overwhelmed,” he wrote.

The show’s rope confirmed that the audience has laughed at the line and said: “It is chilly lyric, not a fun lyric. This is a new development. ”