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Life Is a Cabaret

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April 2024

Three years after the West End production made major waves, the storied musical arrives on Broadway. Adrienne Miller goes behind the scenes at the Kit Kat Club.

- Julien Martinez Leclerc.

Life Is a Cabaret

When I was 15 years old, I saw Cabaret for the first time, at a community theater in northeast Ohio. Though I considered myself sophisticated in important ways (I recall that I was wearing a wide-leg Donna Karan bodysuit that evening), my experience as a theatergoer was then limited to The Sound of Music and Ice Capades: Let's Celebrate.

I wonder if my parents, who had season tickets to the theater, knew that the show wasn't exactly "family" entertainment. Set in 1931 Berlin as it careens toward the abyss, Cabaret depicts alternating stories. There's the doomed romance between a fledgling novelist named Clifford Bradshaw and a young singer of supreme charisma (and mediocre talent) named Sally Bowles. And then there's the seedy nightclub, the Kit Kat Club, which is populated with a highly sexualized cast of misfits and overseen by a ghoulish Master of Ceremonies.

The show's ethos-the glamour and terror, the irreverence, the campiness, the unreality-shaped my taste forever, and I knew that I had just experienced one of the greatest works of art ever created. I would never look at theater, or life, in the same way again.

Over three decades later, I've seen more stage productions of Cabaret than any other show, including a revival starring the original Emcee, Joel Grey; I've seen the Bob Fosse film version over 50 times. I've pretty much always got one of Fred Ebb's sardonic lyrics jangling around in my head. Today, it's "You'll never turn the vinegar to jam, mein Herr," and I couldn't agree more.

Youthful exposure to Cabaret also turned out to be a life-changing event for the star of the new production opening this month on Broadway, Eddie Redmayne. "Weirdly, when I was 15, it was the first thing that made me believe in this whole process," he says. Redmayne was a student at Eton when he first played the Emcee; he had never seen Cabaret when he was cast.

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