Soooo when's that cabaret revival happening?

[Gmerchant123]

Posted: 3/31/13 at 2:19am

Apparently someone on BWW message boards like in February said something along the line of " it will be announced very soon"

[elphaba.scares.me]

Posted: 3/31/13 at 2:44am

2013 is the 15th anniversary of the Mendes production, which was supposedly the catalyst. But although it seems absurd, 2013 is already waning if you're trying to put on a show!

(unless, of course, you have a barn...)

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 3/31/13 at 3:42am

IF it happens, and IF it's going to be at Studio 54, it won't be soon - not until fall at the very earliest.
This is the thread you're talking about

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/31/13 at 5:22am

And seeing how that was only 3 weeks ago, you haven't left a lot of time for "things" to develop.

I didn't hear the original interview and therefore don't know the tone or the wording of the question -- but it certainly could have been more of an IF question that one steeped in reality.

Note: I don't pretend to have any insider info at all. I would love to see this brought back.

[viola13]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 2:12am

Just read this interview with Alan Cumming, this sounds rather promising...

What’s next for you?

I’m doing another show on Broadway after The Good Wife season ends. It starts rehearsals the day after my 49th birthday, so I’ll be entering my 50th year dancing my tits off and being a sexpot.

What’s the show?

I’m not allowed to say. It’s something I did before and we’re doing it again.


http://www.theaesthete.com/story/view.dT/cumming-up-roses

[mschwager]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 3:13am

If he's talking about Cabaret, we won't see it until Spring 2015 (when he turns 50)

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 3:23am

He says the day AFTER his 49th birthday....so that would bring us to 2014. Your first year is the year leading up to your 1st birthday, not starting with your first birthday.

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:30pm

Although I cannot reveal my source, I know for an absolute 100% guaranteed fact that this goes into rehearsals in less than 12 months.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 4/18/13 at 7:32pm

While you're waiting, amuse yourself thusly.
Now there's no way I'll be able to take Macbeth seriously.

[Gmerchant123]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 12:59am

@ghostlight2 any word on when they will announce casting or when the dates are for the revival????:)

[gstrus2]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 8:35am

Did Roundabout ever OFFICIALLY announce this revival? Is it 100% happening?

[Kad]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 8:43am

Everyone has talked about this revival EXCEPT Roundabout.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 9:24am

It's Probably not happening.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 9:53am

^ wrong. it's the other way around

[Kad]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 10:07am

Roundabout is waiting for a name. The likelihood of it happening is good.

But from a PR angle, this has been a failure. They need to make some sort of announcement rather than letting every theatrical news outlet talk about it.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 10:58am

I hate it when shows have to rely on a name to get it up and running. The people aren't going to see the show, they are going to see the celebrity. This isn't always the case but i think it just degrades Theatre. The celebrity has every right to be in the show but Sometimes i just wish the producers had enough balls to let the work speak for itself.

[Kad]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 11:03am

Blame audiences who simply won't go if they don't know what they're getting.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 11:16am

Yeah I know. Broadway really isn't what it use to be. Just cause a celebrity is doing the part doesn't necessarily mean they will be better than someone. Audiences should be at the theater to see the Theatre! Not just to see some celebrity Live. If you want to do that then go to their concert or stalk them on Hollywood BLVD or something. Theatre is suppose to be Art and if the celebrity fits the part and knocks it out of the park then by all means do the show but i wish the fans were seeing the show because of the show and not just to see someone like Raven or Ricky Martin.

[Kad]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 11:34am

Remarkably, theatre exists on streets other than Broadway.

You want to see innovative theatrical art? It exists. It's always existed. Broadway has seldom been about the art, in all its years. It's about lucrative entertainment. If that happens to coincide with real art, all the better. But it doesn't happen often.

Don't talk about "what Broadway used to be," when you weren't around to see it. And don't limit your scope to what is playing on a dozen blocks in one city.

Downtown, uptown, in Chicago, in DC, in Berlin and London and Japan there is amazing theatre happening.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 11:44am

^^ THIS.

[TalkinLoud]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 11:53am

Roundabout is waiting on a name, and they'll be able to find one relatively quickly. I'm sure there's any number of young Hollywood starlets who would kill for this part.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 12:05pm

"You want to see innovative theatrical art? It exists. It's always existed. Broadway has seldom been about the art, in all its years. It's about lucrative entertainment"

You misunderstood me. There is obviously art outside of Broadway but what i was saying was Broadway is ART and should be treated as such. Live Art has never left. Of course "Art" is such a subjective term anyway that no one can really put a definition on it.

"Don't talk about "what Broadway used to be," when you weren't around to see it. And don't limit your scope to what is playing on a dozen blocks in one city

I may not have been around to actually SEE it but i do know that Broadway has changed in the last few years. Its naive to say Broadway is what it use to be in the 60's or 80's or whatever. It has drastically changed.

"Downtown, uptown, in Chicago, in DC, in Berlin and London and Japan there is amazing theatre happening"

Of course there is. I never said there wasn't. On the contrary I have heard a few broadway performers say they love playing to Chicago audiences more than New York. London is also the place that brought us some of the best best musicals ever created. Art isn't just in new york and i never said it was. Art can't be tamed it is everywhere.

[Kad]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 12:24pm

Broadway has been mass entertainment and always has been. Vaudeville, follies, musicals, farces. It has been about making money. What made money in the 30s does not make money in the 60s which doesn't make money now. Just as summer blockbuster films or paperback novels are designed to be lucrative and entertaining. They have their merits but high art most of these things are not.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 1:04pm

"I may not have been around to actually SEE it but i do know that Broadway has changed in the last few years. Its naive to say Broadway is what it use to be in the 60's or 80's or whatever. It has drastically changed. "

Broadway has changed, but the whole world has changed. If Broadway didn't it would have gone the way of the dinosaurs.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 1:10pm

I don't think that Broadway itself has changed much, but the culture around it has. Sadly, the aesthetics of the shows have changed, but the motives behind them remain the same.