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“Cabaret,” the ever-popular (and portentous) musical set in a Berlin nightclub on the eve of the Nazis’ rise to energy, will return to Broadway within the spring in a brand new manufacturing that has already received raves in London.
The producing staff on Tuesday morning introduced a plan to switch the present to Broadway, and mentioned it could open on the August Wilson Theater, the place a revival of “Funny Girl” is scheduled to shut Sept. 3.
The “Cabaret” producers didn’t announce some other particulars, however it’s broadly anticipated that Eddie Redmayne, the movie star who performed the nightclub’s Master of Ceremonies when this revival opened in London, will reprise the function on Broadway. The present’s different large function, Sally Bowles, the nightclub’s star singer, was initially performed in London by Jessie Buckley; that function has not but been forged in New York.
“Cabaret,” with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a e-book by Joe Masteroff, initially opened on Broadway in 1966, and that manufacturing, directed by Hal Prince and starring Joel Grey, received eight Tony Awards, together with for greatest musical, and ran for 3 years. Grey went on to star in a 1972 movie adaptation that received eight Academy Awards, together with one for Grey and one for his co-star, Liza Minnelli.
The musical was revived on Broadway in 1987, once more with Prince directing and Grey because the Emcee. Then in 1998, a brand new manufacturing directed by Sam Mendes and starring Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson, got here to Broadway; that manufacturing closed in 2004 after which returned in 2014 for one more 12 months, opening with Michelle Williams reverse Cumming.
This newest revival, directed by Rebecca Frecknall, opened in London in 2021, and received seven Olivier Awards, together with one for greatest musical revival. Its run is constant. The critic Matt Wolf, writing in The New York Times, referred to as the manufacturing “nerve-shredding,” and mentioned, “Frecknall pulls us into a hedonistic milieu, only to send us out nearly three hours later reminded of life’s horrors.”
The lead producers are Ambassador Theater Group, a British firm that owns and operates theaters round Europe and the United States and has change into more and more lively in producing on Broadway, and Underbelly, a British firm intently related to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
“Cabaret” will be a part of a number of reveals on Broadway this season that cope with antisemitism, amongst them “Just for Us,” a one-man present from the comic Alex Edelman, which is now working, in addition to “Harmony,” a musical by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman that’s opening within the fall and “Prayer for the French Republic,” a play by Joshua Harmon, which is to open within the winter. Last season’s Tony-winning greatest play, “Leopoldstadt,” which closed earlier this month, and the winner of the Tony for greatest musical revival, “Parade,” which runs till Aug. 6, are additionally about antisemitism.
Source: www.nytimes.com