Review: 'Cabaret' with a kinetic Eddie Redmayne can't redeem a faltering Broadway revival
by Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times— 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...
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