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CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Swing Joined: 4/14/24
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#50
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:11pm
These are so all over the place! Like critics saying exact opposite things about the same show. Wild.
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#51
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:11pm
LA Times
Review: 'Cabaret' with a kinetic Eddie Redmayne can't redeem a faltering Broadway revival
https://www.aol.com/news/review-cabaret-kinetic-eddie-redmayne-013048700.html
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#52
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:13pm
Variety is mostly positive
‘Cabaret’ Review: Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin Lead High-Style Revival That Cuts to the Bone
https://variety.com/2024/legit/reviews/cabaret-review-broadway-eddie-redmayne-1235977702/
"All that stripped-down humanity onstage — from the entrails of broken lovers to the dancers’ carnal gyrations (choreography is by Julia Cheng) — make Redmayne’s Emcee a jarring exception. An otherworldly salamander of a narrator, he hunches over, Gollum-like, gnawing on every syllable as if it were his last meal. It’s a fiercely committed performance, but a mannered one, too. For the Emcee to exist as a creature apart makes narrative sense, but Redmayne’s remoteness drains some of the force from what is otherwise a grounded, gut-punching take on a disturbingly timely story."
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#53
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:14pm
Ensemble1713124420 said: "These are so all over the place! Like critics saying exact opposite things about the same show. Wild."
But they’re really not all over the place. They’re mostly bad!
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#54
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:15pm
Maybe Cabaret should take out an ad with competing pull quotes with the headline, "True art sparks debate."
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#55
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:16pm
Queerty is positive
Eddie Redmayne leads a dazzling & dangerous ‘Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club’
https://www.queerty.com/eddie-redmayne-leads-a-dazzling-dangerous-cabaret-at-the-kit-kat-club-20240421
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#56
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:16pm
akhoya87 said: "Maybe Cabaret should take out an ad with competing pull quotes with the headline, "True art sparks debate.""
Not a bad idea!
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#57
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:18pm
Some of these reviews are…strange!
and no, this isn’t an invitation to reach and discuss Lempicka.
Swing Joined: 4/14/24
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#58
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:18pm
Azúcar! said: "Ensemble1713124420 said: "These are so all over the place! Like critics saying exact opposite things about the same show. Wild."
But they’re really not all over the place. They’re mostly bad!"
Well, there are a few positive, a few negative, and a lot of mixed, but what I meant was that they’re saying literally opposite things, like is Eddie Redmayne awful or is he the only reason to see the show? Same with Gayle Rankin. It’s like different critics saw different shows, lol.
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#59
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:20pm
Stay tuned for tomorrow when Heart of Rock and Roll gets the best reviews of the season or something else ridiculous lol
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#60
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:20pm
Now I’m even more curious to see how this does with the Tony nominations next week.
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#61
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:20pm
That Jesse Green review made me laugh out loud repeatedly. Thats a real pan, and a considered, measured one at that.
"Frecknall gives us a Sally made up to look like she’s recently been assaulted or released from an asylum, who dances like a wounded bird, stretches each syllable to the breaking point and shrieks the song instead of singing it." lol.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/13
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#62
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:22pm
These were the reviews I was expecting. New York is more conservative than London. With something like Cabaret, which is so well known, the problem is that to sell tickets it needs to be different enough, yet not step over the line. This version simply goes too weird in the wrong direction.
Enough people will want too see this for themselves, that they should be good for a while, but I doubt they make their money back. Even if they get name replacements, I think people will tire of the gimmicky production.
Sweet shows like Beautiful & Waitress are what draw repeat audiences in New York. Not a death clown Emcee.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#63
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:24pm
The LA times review is right on point . I can’t link it for some reason .
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#64
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:24pm
And also, repeat audiences don’t typically drop $300 - $500 on shows a second time.
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#65
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:25pm
I also had a feeling American critics wouldn't respond to this as well as they did in the UK, but some of these are certainly much sharper than I expected. Sara Holdren, who is usually my favorite critic, seemed unusually sharp. She really tore into Redmayne.
I still think this will rack up nominations and it's definitely still in the conversation for some wins. But Revival, which seemed to have been becoming a tougher competition for a moment there, now seems squarely back in Merrily's camp.
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#66
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:25pm
"New York is more conservative than London."
It's interesting you phrase it that way. I see what you're saying but I think I draw the opposite conclusion. What is so often is called "Bold!" in London just feels obvious and smug here.
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#67
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:27pm
inception said: "
Sweet shows like Beautiful & Waitress are what draw repeat audiences in New York. Not a death clown Emcee."
But Cabaret ran here in NYC for a decade, and then came back for another year. It was lauded and loved. So I dont follow?
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#68
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:27pm
DAME said: "The LA times review is right on point . I can’t link it for some reason ."
It's at Post #51.
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#69
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:28pm
TBH when I saw it last week, I didn't think Eddie Redmayne should even be nominated for the Tony's....but it's a weak season.
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#70
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:31pm
These nasty reviews are mirroring my opinions on seeing this in London, amidst the critical raves there. I wonder if Sunset Boulevard will be similarly received here, in contrast to the London love. I was firmly in the negative on that one too and have been baffled by the acclaim and awards for both shows.
Updated On: 4/21/24 at 10:31 PMUnderstudy Joined: 2/11/08
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#71
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:31pm
It’ll be interesting to see if Sunset Boulevard suffers the same fate as Cabaret in the fall. Potentially divisive reaction but will NY critics praise it as much as the raves in London?
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#72
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:32pm
Jordan Catalano said: "And also, repeat audiences don’t typically drop $300 - $500 on shows a second time."
Exactly. I ADORED this in London (I'll be seeing it in May here) and I would definitely consider going for every replacement cast to see what they do with it, like I do with Hadestown... but not for a MINIMUM of $100.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#73
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:33pm
The Friedman Sisters will sleep well tonight after these reviews...unless the voters are REALLY off from the critics.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/15/04
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews#74
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:33pm
MemorableUserName said: "DAME said: "The LA times review is right on point . I can’t link it for some reason ."
It's at Post #51."
Thank you. This particular quote I agree with whole heartedly.
“There’s a school of thought that Liza Minnelli, who won an Oscar for her rendition of Sally Bowles in the brilliant film adaptation of “Cabaret,” was too accomplished a performer for the role. I’ve never given much credence to this argument, believing that movie musicals, like musicals generally, are elevated by virtuoso singing and dancing.”
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