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."

Updated On: 6/28/25 at 09:46 PM

[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.

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 8/6/25 at 4:34pm

Jason Forbach, currently playing Clifford at the Guthrie, will leave the production early because he "will be returning to Broadway in a role yet to be announced" and will be replaced in the final week of shows by Tyler Michaels King

I'm aiming at seeing the show during one of its final two weekends.