The creative team have made this 786-seat West End theatre actually feel like an intimate cabaret venue. (For £250, audiences can sit in the actual cabaret club area there’s also the option of adding a three-course meal and bottle of champagne to be served to your seat.) The Playhouse Theatre has literally been turned into the Kit Kat club, with a stage in-the-round, and the theatre has been adorned with fussy 1920s details. The famous choreographed dance scene with Emcee and a gorilla during the song If You Could See Her in the second act involves an animal which looks so real it is frightening – this creative production pulls off ideas which seem extreme on paper but feel acceptable within the escapist world of the Kit Kat club. This role suits a lesser-known actor anyway: with the character disguised in over-the-top outfits, if you actually wanted to ‘see’ Redmayne, or any star, you’d be better off waiting for them to take up a role in a more stripped-back show.ĭirector Rebecca Frecknall explodes the already eccentric world inside the Kit Kat club by leaning into the elements of visual fantasy. Emcee is an unnerving presence, and Fee exploits dainty footwork with overemphasised body movements to bring out the enigmatic clownishness of the character. Fra Fee from Disney’s Hawkeye doesn’t look a million miles from Eddie Redmayne as the new Emcee, and has a similar softness of movement as the Hollywood star. Amy Lennox as Sally Bowles in the new cast of Cabaret It’s based on the 1950s play by John van Druten and stories from the 1920s, originally written by Christopher Isherwood, who, living in Berlin at the time, described the era as “a period of ecstasy, sentimentality, worry, hope and clock-watching.” Much like an actual cabaret club, Cabaret hinges on individual characters doing mesmersingly weird things, all in an unbelievably ornate West End environment (more on that later).
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Prowling amidst all this in a series of awe-inspiring outfits is Emcee, the compere at the cabaret club who remains an alluring but distant figure throughout. She’s a local with a heart of gold who falls for a loveable fruit seller who provides sublime comic interludes and some of the gutsiest acting. They both shack up at Fraulein Schneider’s guest house. Fra Fee as the new Emcee in Cabaret, replacing Eddie Redmayne Based on real figures, we meet Clifford Bradshaw, an expat writer from America, and Sally Bowles, a singer who’s escaped a stifling middle class London life where she feels she can’t be herself. We’re in Berlin in the 1920s where a bunch of misfits are connected by how they hustle for work in and around the famous Kit Kat cabaret club.
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