Cabaret, The Kit Kat Club on the Playhouse Theatre – There Ought To Be Clowns

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Cabaret, The Kit Kat Club on the Playhouse Theatre – There Ought To Be Clowns


Callum Scott Howells and Madeline Brewer do great work main the brand new forged of this still-striking Cabaret at The Kit Kat Club at London’s Playhouse Theatre

“That is what comes from too much pills and liquor”

I’d have cherished to see Fra Fee and Amy Lennox in Cabaret’s first lead forged change however the reality is, the presence of a sure somebody within the supporting forged meant that I’d be damned earlier than paying cash to see them once more (significantly while enjoying a Nazi…), having held my nostril lengthy sufficient to get via opening evening. So my first return to The Kit Kat Club has needed to look forward to the key forged change that has simply occurred, which options Callum Scott Howells and Madeline Brewer within the roles Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley inhabited so efficiently in Rebecca Frecknall’s spectacular revival.

The change has been labored spectacularly effectively so there’s an actual sense of the present being the identical however totally different, some shifts in power hitting in several methods however balancing out total in the same method. Callum Scott Howells (so very achingly good in It’s A Sin) is a revelation because the Emcee, Redmayne was wonderful however one thing a couple of queer actor revelling in its unabashed queerness after which taking us on the journey he does hits with that rather more wounding impression. And if Madeline Brewer (which jogs my memory I must make amends for The Handmaid’s Tale) doesn’t have fairly the rawness of Buckley’s interpretation, there’s extra of a playfulness that makes her extremely participating, significantly as she wrenches these iconic songs from her soul.

Richard Katz and Vivien Parry do effectively to take care of the pineapple-scented fantastic thing about the burgeoning relationship between Fräulein Schneider and Herr Schultz, and Sid Sagar has a stunning openness because the genial Cliff. And the entire manufacturing nonetheless looks like a strikingly unique piece of theatre in a West End that may too usually really feel averse to danger. It is undoubtedly a dear present however it’s exhausting to not really feel that it’s one which justifies the price (and there’s reasonably priced tickets popping up in any respect ranges of the theatre). If you’ve not been, it’s definitely worth the journey; and you’ve got been earlier than, this new forged makes a revisit effectively price a festive splurge.

Running time: 2 hours 45 minutes (with interval)
Photos: Marc Brenner
Cabaret is presently reserving at The Kit Kat Club till sixteenth December 2023

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