Adam Lambert made headlines earlier this month when he paused a performance of Cabaret on Broadway to chastise audience members for their behavior. Now the actor is revealing why he felt the need to speak out from the stage.
During his appearance on The View on Monday, Feb. 17, Lambert opened up about the incident, which involved a burst of laughter at a very inappropriate time.
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"One of the big themes in the show is antisemitism," Lambert began.
"There's a scene in the musical where I sing a song to a gorilla, and it's called 'If You Could See Her,'" he continued, adding, "It's satire, it's supposed to be like, 'Yeah, we're back in the nightclub, and we're doing a cute little number,' but it's actually about a really dark, sad thing about how society sees people."
As Lambert explained, the song follows a scene where two older characters (one Jewish, one not) talk about the challenges of being a couple.
"And they make it into the gorilla being the Jewish person," Lambert said. "So the end of the song I say, 'If you could see her through my eyes, she wouldn't look Jewish at all.'"
Lambert went on to say that sometimes "people in the audience, there were a few people here and there, they've had a few too many to drink during the intermission, and they're not listening. They're not getting the message of the show, because the beginning is so permissive and fun and free."
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"And sometimes it gets a laugh as if it were a joke," he added, "and there have been a few shows—one in particular, where this person commented, and I stopped, and I just looked at the audience, and said, 'No, no, no, no, This isn't comedy. Pay attention.'"
Lambert also took the opportunity to point out that Cabaret, which first debuted on Broadway in 1966, is particularly relevant today.
"The first act of the show is really fun and naughty and kind of like dirty humor and it's a good time," he said. "When we get to Act II, we talk about the reality of the Nazis coming into power and what that means for people that are alternative and other in a society that once embraced them and very quickly are vilifying them."
"So it's not that dissimilar to what we see going on in the world right now," Lambert continued. "The show is very relevant. It has been since the late ’60s when it first came out, but right now, in particular, it's eerie to be up there and to be talking about things that are happening again in our country."
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