Even the Orchestra is Beautiful

Not too long ago I got the chance to see the musical Cabaret on Broadway starring the delightful Orville Peck as the Emcee. I got to thinking about male beauty for…reasons. But also the word beautiful itself, which becomes quite loaded in that show. What starts as a bit of clever banter in the opening (“Even the orchestra is beautiful”) becomes a not-so-veiled threat by the end (“You didn’t find…