Mathew Rodriguez is a queer journalist and essayist who is currently the associate editor of The Body, an HIV/AIDS news website. His writing has been featured in Mic, Out, INTO, Slate, The Village Voice and POZ.
One of the main characters in the renowned musical “Cabaret,” bisexual American writer Clifford Bradshaw, is a cipher for author Christopher Isherwood, whose book “The Berlin Stories” serves as the musical’s inspiration. But for Ato Blankson-Wood, the first Black actor to play Clifford on Broadway, he looked beyond Isherwood for inspiration. “It was really important to me that I wasn’t a Black body playing Christopher Isherwood,” Blankson-Wood told NBC News.
It might sound odd to mention the end of the Civil War in reference to a show taking place in the 1920s, but it’s appropriate given that this version of “Cabaret” underscores the cyclical nature of history, especially its atrocities. Bringing nuance and fresh shades of meaning to a traditionally white role is a new challenge, but one that makes sense in a career that has become a testament to the expanding range of depictions available to queer Black actors on Broadway.
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