Cabaret Review-Guthrie Theatre (Minneapolis)

[SteveSanders]

Posted: 6/27/25 at 9:46pm

For those looking for an alternative to the Broadway production.

https://www.startribune.com/review-sizzling-and-jaw-dropping-cabaret-is-one-of-the-guthries-best-productions-in-years/601367741

 

 

 

 

 

"Alluring. Sizzling. Shocking.

“Cabaret” draws in a viewer with artistry, then pummels that bedazzled gaper with devastating hooks.

The Kander and Ebb musical opened Thursday at the Guthrie Theater, unleashing power-packed poetry behind a splashily seductive “Willkommen.”

If director Joseph Haj’s production leaves a viewer feeling breathless and a little glum, old chums, it’s because the show is like a lightning rod that expertly concentrates the electric charges roiling today’s atmosphere.

For though “Cabaret” is set in the waning years of Weimar Germany, Haj’s vision manifests current tensions in a potent package that makes this arguably the most immediate staging of the 1966 Broadway classic in generations."

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 6/27/25 at 10:32pm

I’ve never seen any iteration of the Studio 54 revival production that’s been playing, closing and reappearing for decades. However, I did see two productions in London’s West End that were each somewhat groundbreaking in their own way.

i don’t recall the London venue or year of the first revival I saw there, but the second and latest revival I saw there played the Savoy.

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 6/28/25 at 4:49am

I'm definitely hoping to see it sometime. I've heard nothing but great things from my theatre circle.