EMMA STONE: "Don't Tell Mama" (Cabaret ~ Broadway, 2014)

Emma as Sally Bowles. Enjoy!

[@hangedone]

Every so often A-list actors have to remind us they are just theatre kids

[@TheMaybebaby90]

Emma Stone said she was on a lot of cold and flu medication whilst playing Sally. You would not know, she did a grand job!

[@woman1089]

You can tell

[@sylviacarlson3561]

@@woman1089 How?

[@ATiredHo]

​@@woman1089How ?

[@soupforthefamily8378]

That’s kinda perfect for Sally Bowles

[@poppyameiIa]

it’s so fun to watch gayle rankin in the background knowing she’s about to play sally in the broadway transfer of the london revival

[@PeterMcDowellArts]

which one is gayle rankin, how can I recognize her?

[@drewalvarez8461]

​@@PeterMcDowellArts blonde hair in a ponytail

[@tofucat9286]

omg i THOUGHT that looked like her! that is crazy!

[@lisakaplan9007]

@@PeterMcDowellArts Rankin is on Emma's right (our left) with a hand on the chair at 2:00

[@margaretwynn8050]

Thanks for pointing that out- I was just watching this and thought, "Gee that cast member sure looks like Gayle Rankin!" but assumed it was probably a coincidence, and I wondered if there was a way to look it up.

[@kelseyglass4274]

Alan Cummings is just not appreciated enough lol I know this moment is about Emma Stone... but honestly... Alan sets the bar in theater. Emma absolutely killed this- I would love a movie version w/ her and Alan. Just so I can watch it over and over again

[@sylviacarlson3561]

No No No more remakes please. The first was Superb!

[@cruisematt8585]

I am not usually on board for musical remakes but I would absolutely love to see Alan as the emcee in a movie!!!

[@Ibuddy66]

100% true! Alan is an international treasure! A hero of mine personally!

[@roymackenzie-jy4lr]

I would love to see a movie only so it could focus more on the story of they play than doing its own thing, the only thing after that is deciding which version on the play to base it off, I'd like either 1966, 1968 or 1998

[@edwardkelley649]

I love how she with kind of a 1920's female cartoon voice. It's giving hints of like Betty Boop.

[@cloudambient]

That's not an original idea of hers. That's how the role has always been traditionally done.

[@quinnaddison420]

@@cloudambient Cool he’s saying he likes when she does it, you don’t need to kill people’s vibes negative Nancy

[@cloudambient]

@@quinnaddison420 oh

[@samsong24]

@@cloudambient I dunno why your 'oh' response made me laugh so much lmao

[@glenn212now]

Wow. I had no idea she had been on Broadway. This is great. And who knew that 10-years later she'd have 2 Oscars! I was fortunate enough to have seen 'Cabaret' with Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson before her tragic death. It was a stunning show.

[@gracenurse3365]

This is the first time I’ve actually liked this number. Emma Stone is great in the part.

[@bobbybubby7977]

I was lucky to see one of her first shows and it’s one of the greatest performances I’ve seen on stage.

[@august_unidentified]

I need to sing this song for vocal auditions for Chicago and omg I’m referencing this version I loved Emma Stone in Cruella and the attitude in this is just as good

[@cloudambient]

You should watch the performers that have owned this role prior to her, that's who she's basing her performance on.

[@sharonsassone2725]

Don't copy Emma! Be yourself! She hardly sang any of the song alone nor dance alone. She sat down for much of it. All this tells experienced performers that the director felt she wasn't good enough to do it like it's done by more talented women. She may be a good actress but she's no musical star! 4:50

[@galll_0375]

​@@sharonsassone2725 What are you talking about, the comically big chair has been part of Sally Bowles performances of Don't Tell Mama since AT LEAST the 90s, even in the renditions where they cut the song (like in 1993) they still use it on Mein Herr. Idk when it started but EVERY Sally actress since AT LEAST Jane Horrocks had to perform one of the songs sat on that chair. And they're all incredible actresses and singers so no, it's not because "the director felt she wasn't good enough to do it like it's done by more talented women" it's just that you don't know what you're talking about

[@hannahfanelli6657]

Oh my goodness, I love Emma Stone and Alan Cumming! Bravo! *Applause*

[@LuxLisbon26]

Saw Alan and Natasha on Broadway about five times. Love Natasha RIP. But Emma is awesome too!

[@beckatimest]

emma stone is one of my favourite people on earth

[@HeadoftheSeniorClass-en6qp]

Wunderbar! Emma Stone is *salacious* as Sally.

[@davidyoung5114]

Is it too much to hope that there will ever be a production of CABARET LIVE for TV? If it were up to me, then Emma Stone and Alan Cumming would be the first two I'd cast for the show. GREASE LIVE was a delight, but this would be truly ambitious.

[@jackolas2007]

There has been :D It's from the 1990s with Alan Cumming and Jane Horrocks!

[@shoshanabeanshat8220]

@@jackolas2007This song is cut though isn’t it?

[@richardhollis3783]

@@shoshanabeanshat8220 Yes. Some versions, including the Cumming/Horrocks one, do Mein Herr instead of Don't Tell Mama.

[@JavertRA]

@@richardhollis3783 And others - including the moe recent one in London, have both!

[@phenomenalfinley]

​​@@JavertRA Is the story structure any different if only Mein Herr or Don't Tell Mama is included, instead of both? :0

[@funkyaerobatics6309]

What a coincidence… I was literally thinking about this song today and now it pops up on my recommended page LOL. Emma Stone really nailed the song!!

[@thecompanytheatre-michaelh4091]

Emma is great. Star Quality. She sounds amazing. I wish I saw her!

[@mattk8460]

this feels so uptempo in comparison to other versions ige seen

[@exunderscorejai]

Not a bad version of Sally Bowles. For my money the current Amy Lennox version on the West End is up there with Jane Horrocks for the best I've ever seen

[@bratchny82]

Emma Stone! No wonder she won the Oscar for La La Land! she's got a great comical sass, this is a sexy and confidence performance!

[@ExSxVx]

Saw this live, fantastic!

[@peterostash]

Bravo Emma.

[@beckylang91]

She’s my favorite Sally - I had no idea she would be, but here we are

[@user36able]

Emma Stone is a huge fan of the Spice Girls and Alan Cumming was in the Spice Girls movie. I wonder if she ever asked him about them?

[@S-pw2jh]

Off topic but the rompers the they’re wearing are so cute

[@emilybeauvais4164]

This has pink pony club energy

[@imjustvibinglol]

i thought that was Blaire St. Claire for a second

[@liamroberts2576]

Her and Molly Ringwald are both underrated Sally Bowls I think lol

[@WalkingTravisty]

why didn't she sing like this in la la land tho

[@harperweedon2680]

Sally Bowle’s songs are written to be relatively easy to sing with a high emphasis on acting. Lalaland on the other hand-

[@colonyofrats4193]

Because she’s meant to be an “average” singer in la la land that’s the point of the character

[@harperweedon2680]

@@colonyofrats4193 well so is sally Bowles, but I think she definitely delivers a better vocal performance in Cabaret

[@Azizlol9]

Because she was playing an actress not a singer, it was supposed to feel natural and it was the director’s choice. Even though i believe she sang beautifully in La La Land.

[@LikeTheProphet]

@@colonyofrats4193kay but Sally Bowles is supposed to be a BAD singer lmao. The joke is that the only reason she got to be the lead performer at the club is because she’s sleeping with the owner. 😬 no excuses

[@olptz737]

the person filming this has the most monotone laugh ever

[@JewishJeff839]

Never happy, are you, Karen?

[@filippocumino4344]

There is a video of Emma singing mein herr?

[@angelaboniface451]

Very good from Emma but Alan Cumming is sublime 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@dv9360]

I'm gonna tell Emma Stone's mama on her

[@jackunionjack]

Noo! She would never tell on you!

[@anthonyL1995]

I'm honestly kind of shocked... This is giving early Emma pre-Gwen vibes. Also why can she sing better here than in La La Land? This isn't even a singers role...

[@Sheabuttertend]

I think it was meant to show an average real life person pursuing acting in a city she’s not yet totally confident in. Still inexperienced and finding her footing. I thought it was an interesting choice but it’s such a joy to see her sing like this here!!

[@anthonyL1995]

@@Sheabuttertend I'm honestly intrigued by this portrayal. It's definitely bringing something new to the role. I'd recommend looking up Amy Lennox singing Cabaret or look up the 2021 London Cast recording. Both very interesting portrayals of the character as well!

[@sylviacarlson3561]

Really? Want to try and sing "Mein Herr" and "Maybe this time?"

[@DelphiaStrickland]

That suspended get up didn't load ok very comfortable 😣

[@user-uf7wx5ww4z]

I saw this production. Alan Cumming made you feel like you were the only person in that room. He was absolutely brilliant, and it was so brilliant that I don't think I ever want to see cabaret again because I know one can top it. Emma? Bless her heart, this was not Emma's fine with this moment. I like her as an actress but she was completely forgettable of Sallie Bowles. It just wasn't a part that was been within her range - - at least at that time.

[@valerie4294]

….lol which is why her run was extended. People love to hate on talent.

[@Centaur987]

It's one of those things where you get hooked on the first version you see. I saw it for the first time in London a couple months ago and seeing different versions of it like this I do find good but not as good as the one that I saw. The Emcee was excellent and really want to see it again. I'd still be up for watching different performances though to see to see different interpretations of the character

[@bonniemcghee05]

is it just me or is this super fast? amazing tho!

[@venus4560]

it’s slightly above tempo, but not highly. i think some productions change it lmao

[@abadstroller]

Gives it a manic, desperate quality. It suits Emma Stone's prickly charm as Sally Bowles.

[@MG-km6xg]

Wait did they replace mein lieber herr with dont tell mama??

[@kiwilerner]

Only as far as placement in the show--"Mein Herr" does turn up later. MH wasn't in the original stage version, having been written for another show (IIRC--or perhaps that was "Maybe This Time"?). When Bob Fosse made the film, he replaced "Don't Tell Mama" with "Mein Herr," probably because it better highlighted Liza's talent (as well as Fosse's slinkier choreography), and added "Maybe This Time" as well. Anyway, subsequent stage productions, especially after the 1998 revival, have returned "Don't Tell Mama" and added both "Mein Herr" and "Maybe This Time" too.

[@amyrakoff5839]

Before I saw this I wanted to see a red head in this role and I imagined Amy Adams . Emma stone sounds much better here than in Lala land...still would prefer seeing Adams in role though

[@sylviacarlson3561]

Why?

[@KeepsYouUpAtNight]

If she can sing like this then why did she "sang" the way she did in Lala Land?!?!! 🤯

[@catherinecampbell1215]

I think she was supposed to sing like that in La La Land.

[@ttaannggyod4320]

0:57

[@scott-robertshenkman4130]

The movie spoils because, you know, Liza, but I read a long chapter on the show in a book I've long lost. Sally is not supposed to be that great of a performer. That's why she's stuck the . It makes no sense why she's still at the Kit Kat Klub. A g ain she's Liza. She should be on world stages. Actresses usually play the part down to convey this. You have to be a good singer to be an average one.

[@user-sh4mv3tc3r]

That is such nonsense. Following that logic, Charity in Sweet Charity should not be a good dancer. Hal Prince was critical of the casting of Minnelli, then revived the show with the best singer who ever played Sally....Allyson Reed. It is beyond simplistic to think that if someone has real talent that they would be too successful to work in a place like the Kit Kat Club.

[@scott-robertshenkman4130]

@Richard Mayora Bob Fosse said. I disagree that Sally is an amazing singer and dancer. But the director can cast anyway they want.

[@MrCrowebobby]

Christopher Isherwood, who wrote the original story this is taken from, hated Liza's performance because she was much too good. Sally is a loser in the original story; that is the very essence of her character. Watch Julie Harris in "I Am a Camera" (the non-musical film of the play of the same story) for Isherwood's favorite Sally.

[@user-sh4mv3tc3r]

​@@MrCrowebobby I don't know which film version of Cabaret you saw but the one with Liza Minnelli showed a very unstable woman who lived in a world of delusion while the universe around her was crumbling. She had delusions of grandeur and had an abortion with no emotion. She was a total loser.

[@sylviacarlson3561]

@@user-sh4mv3tc3r Why was Hal Prince critical of the casting of Minnelli? How absurd! She was wonderful and what a voice. Can't comment on Allyson Reed. I never heard of her. I'll have to look her up on KZbin perhaps? Well, everyone has their opinions don't they?

[@liamshaughnessy6246]

Ha ha lol!😀😂🙂😇!!

[@rayana_com_br]

ninguém liga pra comentário em pt-br, mas gente?? broadway e uma produção porca dessas? que horror

[@MrBeachMadness]

she's great, but she's way too young to play Sally Bowles

[@emilywebster1056]

I disagree I love her voice in this song

[@MrBeachMadness]

@@emilywebster1056 She sounds great...but the character is a jaded middle aged woman at the fading end of her girlishness, scraping the bottom of the barrel in a german nightclub...not a pretty 20 something.

[@JaJaM.C.]

The original real-life "Sally Bowles" was only 19 when Charles Isherwood met her in Berlin.

[@nimeshsingh4943]

I love this choreography but hate Alan Cummings's portrayal- the bulge does more acting than he does. Even Emma feels a bit overacted- coming off as a teenage. But her singing and dancing are good. Not great but good. Still feels a bit stunt casted

[@MadameCorgi]

SALLY is a teenager, not? she's like 19

[@lunalestrange83]

'The bulge'? Really?!

[@priiifrg]

They are performing in a sleazy cabaret, IT ISN'T SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE GREAT ACTING.

[@sylviacarlson3561]

@@lunalestrange83 How could you possibly miss it? It was tied up like a runaway Stallion.

[@johnthompson7836]

there is nothing sexual about either of them, they both just seem amorphous. blobs of zero sexuality where this play is all about sexuality in an increasingly hostile world. It should start at super sexualized and then decrease as the nazi influence occurs, instead it starts at a zero and goes into negatives.

[@MrCrowebobby]

Sally isn't supposed to be either sexy or talented in the original story.

[@roymackenzie-jy4lr]

@MrCrowebobby sally was supposed to be attractive, just not a good performer. The whole reason she was hired was for her looks, wasn't it?

[@kundun5]

Where re the high kicks and tap dancing?? This is musical theatre not lesbian night at the Klit kat Klub. This has to be the lesbian version. Gays if you’re going to do Cabaret… Hire areal choreographer and have leads that can sing and dance… this is Cabaret not Dear Evan Hansen!

[@lunalestrange83]

Shut up

[@nele1857]

she was sick...

[@sylviacarlson3561]

I have to admit, I laughed out loud at your comment.

[@rosie-lopez]

i never know what to expect in a youtube comment section

[@lunalestrange83]

@@kundun5 shut up for once

[@summergrace5102]

too skinny Emma

[@deseuryderia]

you would riot if someone said someone was “too fat” so zip it.

[@yourmum4886]

girl what

[@KsnsiskKsndis]

@@yourmum4886what she means is it’s fine to say someone is to skinny and thin but not to say someone is fat? So you can skinny shame but not fat shame?

[@KsnsiskKsndis]

And yeah I bet your just insecure

[@yourmum4886]

@@KsnsiskKsndis oh i know lol i was talking about summer graces comment

[@VioletProVixen]

Oh my gosh! I had no idea Emma Stone was in this. I love it. 😊

[@tomgabbutt3066]

Wow - she's brilliant here :)