The musical-theater masterpiece returns in a buzzy and pricey new
"Sunday Morning" looks at the enduring popularity of the John Kander/Fred Ebb musical "Cabaret," from its debut in 1966 and the Oscar-winning Bob Fosse film, to the latest revival on Broadway, in a production titled "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club." Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with actors Eddie Redmayne (who plays the Emcee), Gayle Rankin (Sally Bowles) and Bebe Neuwirth (Fraulein Schneider), and with designer Tom Scutt, about their goal of immersing the audience in the story.
Walking into the August Wilson Theatre, which has been gutted and impressively transformed into a sexy nightspot called the Kit Kat Club, my immediate reaction was, “Wow. This is cool!” The audienc
If ambience were the secret to theatrical success, the new Broadway revival of "Cabaret" that opened on Sunday at the August Wilson Theatre would be the hit of the year. The venue has been transformed into the Kit Kat Club, the Weimar era Berlin nightspot, where the naughty pastiche score by John Kander and Fred Ebb gets to strut its decadent stuff. A prologue invites theatergoers to immerse themselves in the boozy, burlesque spirit of the show before it properly begins. The bar is buzzing as...
Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne headlines a new, conflicted revival of the legendary musical. It makes the queer subtext into text.
Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in this thrilling musical
The actor gives a seductive, slithering performance alongside Gayle Rankin and Bebe Neuwirth in this Broadway revival of Kander and Ebb’s classic musical set in Weimar-era Germany.
“My wife [Hannah Bagshawe] thinks it’s massage but it’s actually a kind of borderline torture but it’s keeping me upright!” — Eddie Redmayne
When Eddie Redmayne’s slithering Emcee assures the audience at “Cabaret” that “here, life is beautiful,” he’s telling a half-truth. The August Wilson Theater, done up like the Kit Kat Club for a bracing, high-style, Broadway revival that opened there Sunday, has indeed been transformed into a house of pleasure. Entering through an alley and into […]
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In 1966, when the John Kander-Fred Ebb musical "Cabaret" first appeared on Broadway, audiences were dazzled, and disconcerted, by the show's depiction of life in early 1930s Berlin.Joel Grey played the Emcee of the Kit Kat Club; he would reprise the role in the Oscar-winning 1972 film version, welcoming patrons to "leave your troubles outside!"But it's an invitation laced with menace, since waiting in the wings is the horror of the Nazi Third Reich."The cabaret is a place of hope," said actress...
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