West End CABARET Revival (and B’way Transfer?) - News & Discussion Thread — Page 12

Hopefully planning a London trip for the summer and would love to see it at The Playhouse if it's still there! Would also see a stateside transfer, especially if it's Eddie and Jessie onboard!

During a recent interview with Aaron Tveit on The Drama Podcast, he said he would love to be a potential Emcee one day. I forgot he costarred with Eddie and Fra in the Les Mis film! That would be a funny coincidence.

I think it's supposed to run through December of next year. I hope to be in London next summer as well and will try to see it then. Also, those photos are simply beautiful! I still think they could replicate this in a Broadway house, it just depends on which one.

CATSNYrevival said: "I wonder if they plan to tour it and restage the production for proscenium houses or if it was always intended to only ever play this one theatre and that’s it. Was there ever even any intention from the producers to bring the production to Broadway or is it just speculation?"

Pure speculation. I still think the design would get lost in a Broadway house.

Were the tempos sped up for the Roundabout cast album? The tempos here seem much slower by comparison and Eddie especially seems to be milking every… single… word. I don’t hate it, it’s just a huge shift after listening to the Roundabout album so much. Bummed they didn’t include the Entr’acte.

CATSNYrevival said: "Bummed they didn’t include the Entr’acte."

It actually does. The only song I didn’t hear was Married (Reprise)

Ok but does anyone care to share where they’re listening to this?

CreatureKitchen said: "Ok but does anyone care to share where they’re listening to this?"


You can’t ship a couple copies to a couple shops and expect it not to end up “on those sites” very fast.

If their intent was to create some buzz and have people just excited to wait another month for what a select few were able to have, then they need to fire whoever had that idea.

CreatureKitchen said: "Also thought people might be interested...a few accounts on Tumblr (so take it with a grain of salt) are saying that the album has not been released yet because of legal and/or contractual issues. The few boxes that got shipped to stores and opened were not supposed to be sold. Yikes."

That would make more sense to me than some sort of soft release. Can’t imagine what the legal issue would be though.

You’d think all of that would be ironed out before the performances were recorded.

I agree that Eddie went a little too far in Wilkommen and I Don't Care Much. But thankfully he toned it down the rest of the album and was wonderfully weird.

Eddie’s emcee was played like a bit of a weird but endearing creep or oddball in my opinion, especially in the opening number with that awkward posture. it is a very different tone than Alan Cumming, with the larger than life charisma and sexual undertones basically gone. I think I prefer the Sam Mendes take on the role but I do think it’s impressive they were able to find a new character in the emcee in this production as I feel it’s been very hard for people to break the mould (I guess that goes for a lot of choices in this production of course).

BETTY22 said: "Im not if this is coming to Broadway.

They would never have licensed the show to another NYC if they had plans to come to NYC."

What are you talking about?