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Cabaret returns to Studio 54
#75re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 4:06pm
Yay! My chance has arrived!
My first trip to NYC was after Cabaret closed (and before Assassins had opened)
Now I can finally see it, and with Alan no less!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
ElFantasma14
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/06
#76re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 4:25pmI would love to see Cabaret, as I missed it's first run. However, I was hoping "Sunday..." would extend. Hopefully that's still a possibility.
#77re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 4:41pmI'm still in this totally bizarre euphoric state, where I want to run around the room and cheer. I can't believe I'm going to get to see it again.
#78re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 4:50pmMe too Emcee...I honestly don't know what to do with myself. As far as Alan's revival performance, I have very high hopes. I think it is a genuine point that he could take it over the top the second (or third) time around, but I just saw him in Bent in London last fall and was blown away. It was by far the best performance I have ever seen and made me long to somehow see him in Cabaret for myself, as I was only ten when the show opened. As far as casting, I would love to see Anna Maxwell Martin (playing Sally in London) brought over to Broadway. The shows are very different, but she completely embodies the Sally of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories, in my opinion, and could easily take on the Mendes-Marshall production. I am already counting down the days. I still can't believe this is happening...
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#79re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 4:54pm
wickedfan:
well done - you totally missed my point.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#80re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 4:58pm
I think the Emcee allows for some of that, MB.
Cyndi as Sally!
(Ha. Toni Collette would be great. Or, hell! Bring back Natasha Richardson.)
Raspberry
Leading Actor Joined: 1/29/07
#82re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 5:10pmI doubt there would be a recording, since it sounds like they plan on restarting the exact same production. A new CD would be like a show releasing a new recording every time the lead actors change.
"I just want a story and a few good songs that will take me away. I just want to be entertained. I mean, isn't that the point?"
#83re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 5:21pm
Toni Collette would be perfect as Sally but as everyone has said, the probability of her coming back to Broadway are very slim.
I actually don't think Jane Krakowski's voice is too "pure" to play the role, I think she'd be an inspired choice and would bring something new to Sally Bowles.
BsoBw, love the Cyndi idea.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
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#84re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 5:25pm
I actually had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Cyndi recently.
I asked her about a return to Broadway and she expressed an extreme interest in it, but in something completely opposite of THREEPENNY. She said that the show was an amazing experience but very emotionally draining.
She'd very much like to return in a comedy.
#85re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 5:27pm
Okay reality check. Cyndi Lauper is in her 50s. Sally has an abortion. That...couldn't happen.
Lauper, would however be a brilliant Kost. But it will never happen.
#86re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 5:33pmI am beyond ecstatic! I cannot believe I am going to get the chance to see my favorite musical of all time on Broadway! :) Can't wait!
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not."-Sunday in the Park with George
#87re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 5:35pm
Okay reality check. Cyndi Lauper is in her 50s. Sally has an abortion. That...couldn't happen.
So hung up in details, MB 
A boy's allowed to dream though.
I still think Krakowski would be great though.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#88re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 5:35pmI know, this is where I have a Waiting for Guffman "GOD I wish I were in the show!" moment
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
#89re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 5:40pmKrakowski's Sally would probably make you question whether anything she said about herself - her past - even her supposed British heritage - were true. She'd be fascinating.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#90re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 5:40pm
Haha. I was joking.
Lauper needs something to come back in.
#91re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 5:43pmNo, Sant, I got your point. Let me rephrase: don't ever use the revival of Cabaret and Les Mis/Mis Saigon/Cats in the same sentence.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
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#92re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 5:43pmWow I didn't know all that about Colette having difficulties with Patinkin and LaChiusa--too bad because on record anyway she's absolutely sensational in Wild Party
#93re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 5:53pmWell, this news is unexpected, at least for me. I feel like it just closed, but I'm not complaining. I never got a chance to see the revival, never mind Alan Cumming. I'll definitely be making multiple trips if this proves true.
#94re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 5:56pm
People need to stop discussing Jane in here, its making me excited.
My first reaction when someone posted her name was "oh good lord she'd be terrible" but... now I'm really interested. Like.. actually way more than interested. She'd be.. different.
Now what would you say if today I started over?
Without a thing but this taped together four leaf clover
And I'll pretend like everything is already alright
And I'll run toward the sun till the castle's out of sight
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#95re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 6:06pmmaybe Raul will make a guest appearance, after Company. ha ha, I wish
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
lawyerman
Stand-by Joined: 12/21/06
#96re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 6:10pm
I understand why Roundabout is doing it, but its a bizarre feeling- tourists can come to NY and always rely on certain shows to "be around"- the vitality and excitement of opening a new show or reimagining an old one (ie a normal revival) is lost when its just the same shows brought back to make $ every few years... its almost like reruns on TV. Unheard of, then it started with just I LOve Lucy, I believe, and now its standard.
that said, Cabaret is a show that is worthy of being brought back, if there ever was one. Its a powerhouse. Never saw Alan Cumming, but I did see John Stamos and Heather Laws (both actually quite good, especially Stamos) back in 2002, and was blown away by this play.
Am i the only one who (not sitting at the tables, but rather in the mezzanine) thought the show would benefit from a smaller house?
#97re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 6:24pmThank GOD! I have been dying to see a production of this for way too long. Can't wait!! :)
"Wishes come true, not free..."
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#98re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 6:29pm
If this actually does come into fruitation, I will be insanely pleased.
As for Alan, it would be nice to see him in the role of the Emcee [again]. The poor man just can't seem to escape the persona of an over-sexed, very odd, master of ceremonies. Although, I'm getting the weird feeling he may be too old to play that sort of character right now. Hopefully, I'll be proved wrong.
Lauper, would however be a brilliant Kost. But it will never happen.
That's sad, but true. Hey... maybe I could play Kost! ("Just kidding!" 
)
"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who
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Raspberry
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#99re: Cabaret returns to Studio 54
Posted: 5/2/07 at 6:38pm
Am i the only one who (not sitting at the tables, but rather in the mezzanine) thought the show would benefit from a smaller house?
Agreed, but then it wouldn't be as much of a fundraiser.
I wish I could have seen it in the original theatre. (the Henry Miller, renamed the Kit Kat Klub, I think...? maybe?) I hear it was a lot more intimate.
"I just want a story and a few good songs that will take me away. I just want to be entertained. I mean, isn't that the point?"
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