Willkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome to the Kit Kat Club. Home to an intimate and electrifying new production of CABARET.
Experience this groundbreaking musical like never before. The denizens of the Kit Kat Club have created a decadent sanctuary inside Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre, where artists and performers, misfits and outsiders rule the night. Step inside their world. This is Berlin. Relax. Loosen up. Be yourself.
London’s hottest ticket arrives on Broadway this Spring with Academy® and Tony Award® winner Eddie Redmayne reprising his Olivier Award-winning performance as the Emcee, and introducing Gayle Rankin as the Toast of Mayfair, Sally Bowles.
CABARET has music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Joe Masteroff – based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood.
But Frecknall smartly blurs the lines. All we’re really sure of is that we’re in Weimar-era Berlin. When the Emcee sings the echoey, haunting Aryan anthem “Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” he’s wandering through some kind of dreamland populated by wooden doll-size white men. In “Maybe This Time,” while Sally imagines another life for herself—“Not a loser anymore/ Like the last time and the time before,” she sings—she’s technically in Cliff’s room, but she’s also in some other liminal space. (The self-searching songs, “Maybe This Time” and “Cabaret,” are Rankin’s most powerful numbers.) At the end of “What Would You Do?,” Fraulein Schneider is singing atop a platform in the middle of the stage. The lamps on the tables are lit—like we’re in the club watching a performance, not the devastation of a woman who’s just traded her happiness to guarantee her survival.
Luckily there are two performances that do more than their share in trying to right the imbalance. Bebe Neuwirth is exquisite as Fraulein Schneider, the landlady of the boarding house where Clifford rents a room; she brings attention to songs that are not normally among the most memorable in the musical – “So What” and “What Would You Do,” — which drive home the real-life despair and high stakes then facing people in Germany. Her performance is matched by Steven Skybell, as Herr Schultz, one of her boarders. The two older characters gently fall in love, accompanied by some lovely melodies, “It Couldn’t Please Me More,” and “Married.” In the most effective scene in which the Emcee participates:, he wraps a wine glass in a napkin and steps on it – central to the traditional Jewish marriage ritual – but it’s accompanied not by hurrahs, but by a loud boom, darkness, the sound of glass shattering, and the lights up on a fluttering of what might literally be stage confetti, but hits like a preview of Kristallnacht.
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Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Direction of a Musical | Rebecca Frecknall |
2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical | Bebe Neuwirth |
2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical | Gayle Rankin |
2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Sound Design of a Musical | Nick Lidster for Autograph |
2024 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance | Gayle Rankin |
2024 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance | Eddie Redmayne |
2024 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Direction of a Musical | Rebecca Frecknall |
2024 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Cabaret |
2024 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Musical | Bebe Neuwirth |
2024 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Musical | Cabaret |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | Tom Scutt |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Musical | Isabella Byrd |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Steven Skybell |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Eddie Redmayne |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Bebe Neuwirth |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Gayle Rankin |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Musical | Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Tom Scutt |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Musical | Nick Lidster for Autograph |
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