Set in Stone
Back in 2014, Emma Stone was scheduled to appear in the revival of Cabaret, opposite Alan Cumming, recreating his Tony-winning role as the Emcee. A scheduling issue came up, though, and she had to cancel. Michelle Williams took over the role for the show's April opening. However, later in the year, in November, Stone was able to rejoin the show and performed the role for four months.
Here she is singing one of the songs, "Perfectly Marvelous," that was cut from the movie. The lead-in dialogue with 'Cliff' (the character played by Michael York in the film), played by Bill Heck, is a bit difficult to make out, but if you raise the volume high, it helps -- and once she gets into the song, things are better.
If you've only seen the film, know that the movie reworked the character of 'Cliff' from the stage version and brought out that he was gay, which I believe is true to the original anthology, The Berlin Stories, by Christopher Isherwood. In the stage musical, though, that wasn't the case. Whether they've subsequently rewritten the stage show fit the original source material and movie, I don't know. The dialogue here hints at it, though.
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