An American singing and speaking certain words in French with a German accent. A small slice of theatrical brilliance that many took for granted when this man played this role. Btw, it's all perfect.
One thing overlooked about "Cabaret" is that the scenes WITHOUT the Emcee pretty much suck. I enjoy ALL the parts with the Emcee, and fall asleep during the other parts. If all of Cabaret was as good as the Emcee parts, it would have been 10 times as successful, not that it wasn't exremely successful anyway.
.There is a delightfully thin & fragile line that separates Joel Grey's character from Jack Nicholson's Joker from Tim Burton's 1989 "Batman". :-)
Also cool how Joel is wearing more blush & longer eyelashes than any of the chorus girls, of Liza, or even the female impersonator (with the feather). LOL!
Unfortunately the movie totally distracted from the actual play. Read the play and you will not waste your time with the movie (although Joel Grey was fabulous)
@fubar3dac Actually, it is interesting to compare the play ("I Am a Camera", by John Van Druten), with the STAGE version of this musical, & with this MOVIE version of the musical. Even between the stage & movie versions, characters are dropped & scenes substituted. The movie version ends up being deliciously darker, with songs being introduced more realistically & true-to-life than in the stage version.
Joel Grey has a kind of gentleness about him which is especially appealing for the Emcee. His version trumps everybody else's, INCLUDING ESPECIALLY THAT FUCKER ALAN CUMMING.
"Outside, it is windy, but here it is so hot...[whimper]...every night we have the battle to keep the girls from taking off all their clothing! So, don't go away; who knows? Tonight we may lose the battle!" :D
@nautracer12 Uh, he's saying. Welcome.... uh, plus, he translates everything he says in the other languages (French and German I believe) into English....
@agenttheater5 I think it's mainly because most of the performers on stage are cross dressers and that most of the men in the audience are getting turned on by them. And also Joel Gray as the emcee is really REALLY creepy. And because the mirror has teeth.
It's annoying that this fantastic film isn't shown more often.Ok,yeah,it does have some pretty graphic scenes in it,but you couldn't really ignore the rise of Nazi-ism just 'cause this was a 'musical'.Liza,Joel and Michael were all magnificent,as were the supporting cast.
@princessslm1997 It about the life of (two people in general). An American woman who works at a German Cabaret in the time of WW2 and a young man who travels to Berlin and falls in love with her. There's a whole lot more to the story, you should watch it. It's a CLASSIC movie. One of my favs.
es ist lustig wenn man alle 3 sprachen kann. it's fun when you understand all the 3 languages. il m'amuse parce que je peut comprendre tous les 3 langues
To Joel Grey, whom I passed and discreetly greeted once in the street in New York, at his very best and without whom Cabaret would not have been complete, Bravo!
The great contrast in this movie is this opening scene of the Weimar era decadence crowd vs. closing shot of the cabaret's 'new audience' later of Nazi officers.
The idea apparently being that blowzy degeneracy and dissipation give an entree to authoritarian Leftist cults disguised in traditional family values.
brilliant film - great adaptation of Isherwood's book but with something else - 1970's flamboyance, songs which work in context with the movie & dare i say a harbinger of punk! (the dancers that is) hell what do i know - it's a great piece of cinema & that's all that matters eh?
I consider Joel Greys performance in this film one of the greatest ever, close to perfect... It's a pity I'm to tall to play any such in theatres, but it's a dream of mine...
I go to a lot of wine tastings & listen to stupid people going on & on, about "award winning" wines . They're just mindless idiots . If u washed your feet in the wine before serving it, they wouldn't know the difference. They'd still gush about it because of the award or the critics reviews.
While Joel's performance is light hearted, quirky, and whimsical (almost innocent), I think I prefer Alan Cumming's. It's a little bit darker, which seems to fit the character of the set more in my opinion.
Such a great film. First time I saw this opening scene, I couldn't believe it, quite disturbing, but I loved it!
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YonaArieFeinberg 1 day ago
man i saw this in middle school by myself. creepy as FCK.
sandyw239 5 days ago
i swear they're guys in drag...
thelittleewelamb 1 week ago
@thelittleewelamb half of them are. on purpose.
QueenMJade89 18 hours ago
these were some very ugly girls
MsLisaBlair 1 week ago
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thelittleewelamb 1 week ago
3:09 BURLESQUE SO STOLE THAT FROM CABARET!
96marzie 2 weeks ago
Brillant!
jijijhik 2 weeks ago
Joel Grey scares me on so many levels and yet I deeply appreciate his music odd..
bentleebear1 2 weeks ago
Later the team of Fred Ebb and John Kander were to write the great tune New York, New York, popularized by the legendary Frank Sinatra.
stagesurvivor5 2 weeks ago
the best movie ever
flyAAAfly 3 weeks ago
fosse is freakin brilliant!!!
uwdevo66 3 weeks ago
Awesomee
oreburg 4 weeks ago
An American singing and speaking certain words in French with a German accent. A small slice of theatrical brilliance that many took for granted when this man played this role. Btw, it's all perfect.
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LinkKillz14 1 month ago
One thing overlooked about "Cabaret" is that the scenes WITHOUT the Emcee pretty much suck. I enjoy ALL the parts with the Emcee, and fall asleep during the other parts. If all of Cabaret was as good as the Emcee parts, it would have been 10 times as successful, not that it wasn't exremely successful anyway.
Stldetrl 1 month ago 3
still to this day haven't worked out who's a man and who's a woman...
Cleo4696 1 month ago 7
Drag off between the Joel Grey and Dr. Frank-N-Furter!
saintdane05 1 month ago 3
.There is a delightfully thin & fragile line that separates Joel Grey's character from Jack Nicholson's Joker from Tim Burton's 1989 "Batman". :-)
Also cool how Joel is wearing more blush & longer eyelashes than any of the chorus girls, of Liza, or even the female impersonator (with the feather). LOL!
ZeldaMarshall 1 month ago 2
@ZeldaMarshall Absolutely! Although there are definitely aspects of the revival I appreciate as well.
Paganforge 1 month ago
I just LOVE the Otto Dix reference at 0:37!!
ZRedPoppy 1 month ago
OMG Joel Grey is fab in this
jeremyagain 1 month ago
One of the best opening numbers ever written. Hands down. And Joel Gray just tears it up.
ZeperandAzmyth 1 month ago 4
@ZeperandAzmyth Absolutely right.......the best.
parissaz 1 month ago
Unfortunately the movie totally distracted from the actual play. Read the play and you will not waste your time with the movie (although Joel Grey was fabulous)
fubar3dac 1 month ago
@fubar3dac Actually, it is interesting to compare the play ("I Am a Camera", by John Van Druten), with the STAGE version of this musical, & with this MOVIE version of the musical. Even between the stage & movie versions, characters are dropped & scenes substituted. The movie version ends up being deliciously darker, with songs being introduced more realistically & true-to-life than in the stage version.
ZeldaMarshall 1 month ago
thumbs up if you like the guy with the dummy
agenttheater5 1 month ago
who was a chick and who was a dude?
Sniper77799 1 month ago
Ce film est une référence!!!
Bombalerina 1 month ago
The cabaret girls were drag queens.
jckfmsincty 1 month ago
@jckfmsincty no, the blonde one with the fan was
agenttheater5 1 month ago
@jckfmsincty just that style of make-up
agenttheater5 1 month ago
it was prophetic then (or reminiscent) and it's becoming so again. 99% and all that.
phildread 1 month ago
oh this movie <3
CFFDan 1 month ago
I think he is sooo beautiful...
f0ckthepopo 1 month ago
Hello Stranger ;)
littleromanticvoice 1 month ago
is it sad that i know all the words to EVERY bloody song in this movie?
princessneko21 1 month ago
@princessneko21
I actually makes you a great person.
entewente 1 month ago
@entewente well thank you. this movie still happens to be my favorite musical. i taught myself the "mien Herr" routine when i was five.
princessneko21 1 month ago
This film is a work of genius
kissmequick8 2 months ago 55
the joker's words when ho sall that guy "Why so CRAZY"
TheGab400 2 months ago
Joel Grey has a kind of gentleness about him which is especially appealing for the Emcee. His version trumps everybody else's, INCLUDING ESPECIALLY THAT FUCKER ALAN CUMMING.
djsrob 2 months ago
Reminds me of the Joker crossewd with a Ventriloquist's dummy
TheEmperorCho 2 months ago
Cabaret must be Bob Fosse's best masterpiece. His better well known creations that he made. Genius.
PhilippineAmerican 2 months ago
He won an oscar and a tony for this role
bigjoetube 2 months ago
i totally adore this men...
Rockerita21 2 months ago
i love bob fosses choreography, it has so much isolation and contraction incorporated into it!
he truly was one of the greatest jazz choreographers ever! R.I.P. bob!!!
SuperBecauseican 2 months ago
the movie version is such shit compared to the play...i hate joel greys interpretation of the emcee...
depeau44 2 months ago
@depeau44 but he was the orgininal emcee from the broadway play
agenttheater5 2 months ago
@agenttheater5 i know.. but he sounds like shit... its too caricature
depeau44 2 months ago
they sound french but there german
urantiruslan 2 months ago
Scary thing is that some of the stuff the 'Caberet Girls' are wearing is near enough to todays fashion trends?
20meerkat 2 months ago in playlist The Muppets playlist
"Outside, it is windy, but here it is so hot...[whimper]...every night we have the battle to keep the girls from taking off all their clothing! So, don't go away; who knows? Tonight we may lose the battle!" :D
crazyman8472 2 months ago 2
Joel Grey looks adorable in this movie.
PhilippineAmerican 2 months ago
2:44-45. Joel Grey's cartoon-ish noises. love them.
TheAmylou1994 2 months ago
im cabaret
au cabaret
to cabaRET
beautyandthehunk 2 months ago
Joel Gray is a GENIUS
beautyandthehunk 2 months ago 3
No books don't sing much.
hecktertheinspector 2 months ago
And damned good reading : )
davidreeves101 3 months ago
Read the Isherwood books - amazing, and scary
davidreeves101 3 months ago
Michael York is a hottie
jceowoodard 3 months ago 2
Meine Damen und Herren,
mesdames et messieurs...
ladies UND gentlemen.
ShmelevJr 3 months ago
Qué maravilla, me encanta ! Gracias !
rojocadmio 3 months ago
He soooooo creepy, but the good kind... ; )
Misducky03 3 months ago 72
@Misducky03 Not at all if comparted with actual austere faces aruond....the 'european norme'
sinoples 3 weeks ago
I saw Joel Gray in Anything Goes on broadway...man I wish I could have seen him on broadway in THIS role! <3
IndigoChild6 3 months ago
OMG I DIDN"T KNOW IT WAS JOEL GREY HOLY CRAP!!!!
cargoat 3 months ago
I like the broadway version better
cargoat 3 months ago
@cargoat of course the broadway verison is always better. Brodway is bettert period.
princessslm1997 3 months ago
Moi honnêtement j'adore <3<3<3
TheInesbee 3 months ago
omg luv this movie
Maidenfairy12 3 months ago
I really don't understand German, what is he saying/ i love the scene!
nautracer12 3 months ago
@nautracer12 Uh, he's saying. Welcome.... uh, plus, he translates everything he says in the other languages (French and German I believe) into English....
DanieXJ 3 months ago
Scratch that, this is a HELL of a lot scarier then Tomorrow Belongs to Me.
AGuyInAHat 3 months ago 3
@AGuyInAHat you mean because the mirror has teeth?
agenttheater5 2 months ago
@agenttheater5 I think it's mainly because most of the performers on stage are cross dressers and that most of the men in the audience are getting turned on by them. And also Joel Gray as the emcee is really REALLY creepy. And because the mirror has teeth.
AGuyInAHat 2 months ago
@AGuyInAHat you mean because the mirror has teeth?
agenttheater5 2 months ago
Fosse's best, IMHO.
GeneralZodFDNY77 3 months ago
It's annoying that this fantastic film isn't shown more often.Ok,yeah,it does have some pretty graphic scenes in it,but you couldn't really ignore the rise of Nazi-ism just 'cause this was a 'musical'.Liza,Joel and Michael were all magnificent,as were the supporting cast.
popazz1 4 months ago
The real name of this video is willkommen it is simple if u think about it
carcarlove1 4 months ago
please someone tell me
munchster227 4 months ago
@munchster227 Uhhhh Cabaret
Badlylit 4 months ago
can anyone tell me what the title of this movie is?
munchster227 4 months ago
Today in Kotka, Finland. Didnt watch.
jaakkojoo 4 months ago
@jaakkojoo I did ;)
ttogepi 4 months ago
I like the original emcee as opposed to like the Alan Cumming reprisal. Alan is awesome, but I like the class in the Joel Gray version.
DJWidget 4 months ago
Perfect Entrance. Great !
fabiorogerioventura 4 months ago
The best Fosse film of all time. Miss you Bob!
Millienfilm81 4 months ago
Bob Fosse directing = amazing!
Suenickmarch1 4 months ago
can someone tell what this about becasue my school is doing it this year
princessslm1997 4 months ago
@princessslm1997 It about the life of (two people in general). An American woman who works at a German Cabaret in the time of WW2 and a young man who travels to Berlin and falls in love with her. There's a whole lot more to the story, you should watch it. It's a CLASSIC movie. One of my favs.
Akatsukigirl710 4 months ago
@Akatsukigirl710 it is a lot before WW2.It goes to show the rise of the Nazi Party in its infancy.
heywoodjerbloume 3 months ago
life's default number. lol thank you. m
Loumademe 4 months ago
I just love this scene from the movie! I adore Bob Fosse's directing and choreography. Been singing this song all day while cleaning my room!
googagirl 4 months ago
@peymaania Yes it was. How funny that it all turned into that Nazi crap, huh?
Quite a transformation.
TheLoyalOfficer 4 months ago
Génial!tout simplement...
torchwood651 4 months ago
the mirror has teeth
agenttheater5 4 months ago
What the hell did I just watch?
xSchallerx 4 months ago
Everyones Favorite Game : Spot the Drag Queen!!!
realhxq 4 months ago 88
@realhxq the beauty of this movie, you dont know who many of the girls in the ballet are born as girls. :)
catgroucho 4 months ago
@realhxq
He is an exaggerated parody of popular german caberet singers during the Weimar republic, not in drag :P
pchwang 3 months ago
@pchwang watch again , and take a closer look at maozie (spellcheck) third girl/or guy.
realhxq 3 months ago
@realhxq that's where burlesque (the film) fails, it doesn't have a drag queen
agenttheater5 2 months ago
@agenttheater5 maozie moazie moazie!!!
realhxq 2 months ago
@realhxq the man this character is based off of actually was not a drag queen, he wore the makeup to hide his real age.
SuperBecauseican 2 months ago
@SuperBecauseican the man in the blue sailor suit with the blond wig? Moazie?
realhxq 2 months ago
Joel Grey always kind of reminded me of John Hurt.
VintageFunkadelic 4 months ago
@VintageFunkadelic IDK ABOUT THAT BUT HE SURE DOES LOOK LIKE BEN A.K.A DEAN STOCKWELL FROM THE MOVIE, BLUE VELVET LOL
nukecat 4 months ago in playlist Retrospektive I
@nukecat ...and his eyes and looks sometimes are very much like his daughters', Jennifer Grey, in Dirty Dancing
fahrzeit1 4 months ago
bienvenue au cabaret !
torchwood651 4 months ago
es ist lustig wenn man alle 3 sprachen kann. it's fun when you understand all the 3 languages. il m'amuse parce que je peut comprendre tous les 3 langues
cinderellagirls94 4 months ago 2
@cinderellagirls94 Je sais bien? Ich weiss oder? I know right?
BasingstokePSB 4 months ago
@BasingstokePSB are you english? bist du englisch? est-ce que tu es anglais???
cinderellagirls94 4 months ago
@cinderellagirls94 No, I am Scottish! Nein, ich bin Schottisch! Non, je suis Ecossais!
And you? Und du? Et tu?
BasingstokePSB 4 months ago
Well hell, now I gotta go look at some Marlene Dietrich footage.
emmers57 5 months ago
2:46 - straight out of teacher training college
BasingstokePSB 5 months ago
"Leave your troubles OUTSIDE!"
Amen!
yukifan23 5 months ago
my fav movie of ALL time,just in awe over LIZA ,just love it !!!
1jackiea 5 months ago
Lively the french and the cabaret !!!
carakahlan1 5 months ago
These faggots are SO much better than the Nazis, right? What a joke.
skewbuh 5 months ago
my little cousin saw this yesterday, he can't sleep anymore
Strawaberry1257 5 months ago
impresionante!!!! genial interpretación!!! me quito el sombrero ante tanta arte de Joel Grey!!!! Such a great artist!!!! amazing!!!!...
carolinaecuador 5 months ago
To Joel Grey, whom I passed and discreetly greeted once in the street in New York, at his very best and without whom Cabaret would not have been complete, Bravo!
FRANKHODGES39 5 months ago
Joel Grey looks like Goebbels in make-up!
ahtaimo 5 months ago 4
Genius
guntzborg 5 months ago
AAAAAAAAAAA le mec me fait troppp peur avec sa gueule de chien
pronotageangel 5 months ago
Each and every one... a wergin
kblosveren 5 months ago
This reminds me of a real life joker from batman
justafidemyself 5 months ago
You gatta love the classics like Jole Grey, but my favorite mc was Allen Cummings. John Stamos wasn't half bad ether.
ASneg3PRODUCTIONS 5 months ago
i studied this movie this year. safe to say my family is prepared to kill me if i sing this sond once more
Mollitoe 5 months ago 3
Oh my God. I have to sing this Great song at the beginning of our Musical in my school. xD
DerGeisterbahnFreak 5 months ago
.06..the scariest damn thing I've ever seen awake..
bettyfelon1 6 months ago
The great contrast in this movie is this opening scene of the Weimar era decadence crowd vs. closing shot of the cabaret's 'new audience' later of Nazi officers.
The idea apparently being that blowzy degeneracy and dissipation give an entree to authoritarian Leftist cults disguised in traditional family values.
ProNorden 6 months ago
I love these old classics. Bring back vaudeville damnit.
ThePaperFalcon 6 months ago 63
@ThePaperFalcon That's not vaudeville... it's burlesque. There's a difference.
TheKTohs 4 months ago 3
wonderfull...is al those years one of my favourits
Pollewopwop 6 months ago
Sarah Jessica Parker?! 2:24
mchammer9571 6 months ago
he scares me...
bentleebear1 6 months ago
0:38 Nice Otto Dix's reference !
YTMakeup 6 months ago 2
@YTMakeup nerly similiar to the picture... the glass the cigarret case the hands!! omg!
29067930 6 months ago
At least one of those dancing girls is a man. I'm sure of it.
VulcanTrekkie45 6 months ago 3
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@VulcanTrekkie45 You are correct. Have you not seen the movie?
renrengrin 6 months ago
So fucking gooooooooood!
musiclegend1000 6 months ago
Too bad Joel Grey never got a chance to play The Joker.
DrZaius75 6 months ago 3
@DrZaius75 He couldn't have played the Joker. The Joker didn't take it up the ass as often as possible.
Virtuosic1 6 months ago
@Virtuosic1 You haven't read Akham Asylum, have you?
DrZaius75 6 months ago
@DrZaius75 Nope. Never read it. Did Joel Gray take it up the ass from all the inmates in that story? It wouldn't surprise me at all.
Virtuosic1 6 months ago
@DrZaius75 the reference Please?
realhxq 6 months ago
Something about this clip is going to haunt me in my nightmares...
Pangie93 6 months ago
What a movie, a classic....
dansimsss 6 months ago
Joel Grey is the ultimate showman. He is the only one for this part. Wonderful!
onebaud 6 months ago 2
@onebaud There's other fags that could have done just as well.
Virtuosic1 6 months ago
Has Joel Grey ever not been amazing?
wickedzen1 7 months ago
I use to like boys with big smiles but now I think I like boys with a gang of buxom bitches at his side.
rayneholloway1 7 months ago
Hallo Stranger Hahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahha
Fischer636 7 months ago
brilliant film - great adaptation of Isherwood's book but with something else - 1970's flamboyance, songs which work in context with the movie & dare i say a harbinger of punk! (the dancers that is) hell what do i know - it's a great piece of cinema & that's all that matters eh?
66gadus 7 months ago
Joel Grey is playing a gay man who hates the Nazis of 1931. Cabaret was noted for dark entertainment.
caprice6 7 months ago 3
Now THIS is Cabaret...
cfronck 8 months ago 3
I consider Joel Greys performance in this film one of the greatest ever, close to perfect... It's a pity I'm to tall to play any such in theatres, but it's a dream of mine...
whackyt 8 months ago 4
Just the right balance of charm and total creepiness.
Veggieman87 8 months ago 2
The original Rocky Horror Picture Show? JK
CaptGage 8 months ago
2:44 - 2:46 is the best part in the whole song. Hahahaha
michaelgalea 8 months ago
It's true. The reason I took it so personally is because I believe he's my 'turkey baster' daddy. Sorry I called you a fuck stick.....dip-shit.
rayneholloway1 8 months ago
He won an Oscar for it fuck-stick. By the way , congrats for being creeped out by great showmanship. You're really deep.
rayneholloway1 8 months ago
@rayneholloway1 Who cares if he won an Oscar, he still looks creepy. Why are you taking this so personally?
scarryterry 8 months ago
@scarryterry
I think ur 100% right..... He's just creepy.
Too damn creepy for me to sympathize with.
I go to a lot of wine tastings & listen to stupid people going on & on, about "award winning" wines . They're just mindless idiots . If u washed your feet in the wine before serving it, they wouldn't know the difference. They'd still gush about it because of the award or the critics reviews.
People r like that with movies too, apparently.
ggmorvaj 6 months ago
my high school did this musical for our spring production, i now know all the lyrics. it was by far the funnest musical to put on :D
abstractxXxsmile 8 months ago
The Master of Ceremonies kinda creeps me out. He's like the scary clown!
baisuh 8 months ago
Classic! No one can touch this performance
Zeneternity 8 months ago 3
While Joel's performance is light hearted, quirky, and whimsical (almost innocent), I think I prefer Alan Cumming's. It's a little bit darker, which seems to fit the character of the set more in my opinion.
Sabbygara 9 months ago
I did not expect that voice...
teetertoter3 9 months ago
I've been singing this all day. My mom's probably ready to smack me one.
ValtronW 10 months ago 49
@ValtronW Same here hahaha
thecoolgamer220033 6 months ago