CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews

London’s hottest ticket has arrived on Broadway 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.

The show is celebrating its opening this evening at the specially-revamped August Wilson Theatre, with an official opening and reviews being published tomorrow, Sunday, April 21.

TaffyDavenport said: "Embargo lifts at 9:30 p.m."

question how do you know this and been posting for openings?

TaffyDavenport said: "Adam Feldman usually posts on Twitter what time each of his reviews will be released."

TY thought so I don't follow him

Recency bias will likely push this production past Merrily in most of their eligible categories.

Jesse Green in NYT is mixed.

‘Cabaret’ Review: What Good Is Screaming Alone in Your Room?

Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in a buzzy Broadway revival that rips the skin off the 1966 musical.

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Updated On: 4/21/24 at 09:31 PM

Theatermania is negative:

Review: Cabaret Returns to Broadway in an Incoherent Revival

Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in a semi-immersive production of the great Kander and Ebb musical.

https://www.theatermania.com/news/review-cabaret-returns-to-broadway-in-an-incoherent-revival_1737827/

"The result is a superficial fairytale of a Berlin overrun with hooker clowns and cartoon Nazis, something that bears little resemblance to the insidious creep of authoritarianism in our own world. It can’t happen here, this production seems to reassure its well-heeled audience. And it really feels as though we are all fast asleep."

Timeout basically pans it.

Updated On: 4/21/24 at 09:39 PM

I thought Jesse's "person next to you" line in Notebook would be my favorite quip of his this season, but there's some stiff competition in this review:

"The problem for me is that “Cabaret” has a distinctive profile already. The extreme one offered here frequently defaces it."

"But too often a misguided attempt to resuscitate the show breaks its ribs."

"The point of Sally, and of “Cabaret” more generally, is to dramatize the danger of disengagement from reality, not to fetishize it."

Plus calling the pre-show "throat-clearing."

It’s quite a bit more than 26 million, I’m told.

EDSOSLO858 said: "Recency bias will likely push this production past Merrilyin most of their eligiblecategories."


Boy, were you premature with this, lol

Updated On: 4/21/24 at 09:45 PM