This revival isn't half as innovative as it thinks it is. The 1998/2014 revivals also drew the audience immersively into the world of the Kit Kat Klub at Studio 54-- AND with the SUPERB Alan Cumming!! This revival obviously tips its hat too early, and thinks it is so daring and provocative. It looks so much WORSE than other superior revivals.

@MatthewHardyMusical

Ай бұрын

I LOVED the Alan Cumming revival. there's a reason why they remounted it again on Broadway.

@kevinbailey8827

27 күн бұрын

I also loved the 1998 version. I saw it on tour with the great Norbert Leo Butz (who was great but not yet legendary). It was in LA with the full Kit Kat Klub transformation of the theater. Teri Hatcher was Sally. Then I saw it in Dallas with Butz and Lea Thompson. Then I saw it on Broadway with no one special in the lead roles, but Blair Brown as Fr. Schneider. Finally I saw the relaunch with Cummings and Michelle Williams. That’s more than I’ve seen any show other than Always, Patsy Cline. I don’t see the point of the changes in this version. Though I haven’t seen it and I’m only going from reviews and promotions. I don’t see the point of the updates to Sunset Blvd. I kind of see the point of the recent Oklahoma! I really didn’t get the point of that Sweeney Todd production that was set in an insane asylum and the characters played all the instruments, but I did see that one and it had Patti LuPone so of course I enjoyed it!

@yedis1750

20 күн бұрын

I dont see the point in people commenting on shows they havent seen...

@yedis1750

20 күн бұрын

'It' thinks it is innovative does it? I think 'it' just thinks that doing carbon copies of shows which come before it and bowing down to nostalgia will be the death of theatre.

@kevinbailey8827

20 күн бұрын

@@yedis1750 we both have points we don’t see.

Originally, Kost sings Tomorrow Belongs To Me at the engagement party at the end of act one but it would make and make no sense for her to be interrupting the love song, Married, between Schultz and Schneider. It would be a plebeian choice to suddenly make her want a husband.

@MatthewHardyMusical

19 күн бұрын

Yeh, it was confusing. I didn't get why. Maybe someone else who has seen the show can make sense of that choice.

In the Brazil production,it is way more immersive,every seat is a table to look like you are on the club but the chairs aren't comfortable,great review!

@MatthewHardyMusical

Ай бұрын

I'm buying my ticket to Brazil!

I interpreted the suits at the end as them blending in with the n@zis rather than trying to fight them

@MatthewHardyMusical

Ай бұрын

I think that's the correct interpretation. I just didn't like how it looked on Sally for her big number. You'd think she'd be wearing a cabaret outfit for a song that declares her love of the Cabaret.

@cripbabe111

4 күн бұрын

@@MatthewHardyMusical Way too oblique of an ending - needed the sucker punch of the known ending to really drive the point home, especially in this day and age.

Question: having seen this show I don’t know that I agree with your statement that it’s highly immersive or that I would recommend to see it even in the mezzanine. You pay upwards of $200 for nosebleeds and you get a better view than the tables or anywhere else but then it doesn’t matter because Redmayne is mumbling half his lines or speaking like French Kermit. Lots of choices seem to be made for shock value only? The clown suit and skeleton confused the hell out of me and my partner, so much so we are still trying to figure out what they are going for. Cliff is boring and one note, sally scream songs like everything, the only part of the show that was truly exceptional was the portrayal of Herr Shultz, who clearly gave everything he had to the role and it paid off in spades. Trying to understand how you could say that you did and then in the very last second turn around and recommend a show you couldn’t see half of. If anything this production takes some enormous swings that don’t hit the mark. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but yours is in conflict with itself.

@austensg9596

5 күн бұрын

Partner here. We were talking about how some movies are “bad” and some are “fun bad” this morning. We think this version of Cabaret is “fun bad” IF $200 means absolutely nothing to you (plus getting into/out of the city, sleeping accommodations, etc.). Poking fun at Eddie Redmayne is justified when we’ve all spent $200+ to see Cabaret and got something that feels dissonant from the themes of the text. I think we feel a little ripped off, especially because we saw a production in Rochester two weeks ago for $40 per ticket that knocked our socks off. Imo Herr Shultz was the best of the lot and knew what show he was in. Ernst did too. I’m not sure about everyone else. It’s like…when people decide to do Shakespeare the weirdest way they can, and then it doesn’t work? This feels like that.

@MatthewHardyMusical

5 күн бұрын

Thanks for your question/comment! In all my reviews I finish with a reason why someone might want to see the show. If I think a show has nothing worthwhile for an audience then I won't review it. I agree that Stephen Skybell as Herr Schultz was great. I also loved Bebe Neuworth as Frauline Schneider. I think they make the show worth seeing as well as the opportunity to experience the interesting choices made for this immersive production. The ticket buyer has to decide if seeing Stephen and Bebe's performances are worth the $200 price tag. As @austensg9596 pointed out, $200 means different things to different people. (FULL DISCLOSURE: I did NOT pay $200 to see the show. I was given a comp ticket during previews.)

I thought it was too deconstructed and self knowing the pre-show is a gimmick- have seen better Carbarets

@MatthewHardyMusical

Ай бұрын

But have you had a better Cabernet?

While it was flashy, I have seen better productions with the story.

@MatthewHardyMusical

18 күн бұрын

But have you seen flashier productions? :-)

Eddie is too,alpha male to get the humor.

@donnyslader9025

Ай бұрын

Epilepsy behavior apparently.

@kenmcleod3733

20 күн бұрын

Huh?

@MatthewHardyMusical

19 күн бұрын

I don't know if I'd describe Eddie as Alpha.

@jeffreywillstewart

19 күн бұрын

@@MatthewHardyMusical he is a leading man. I like the role when played by s character actor. As damaged as Sally!

@MatthewHardyMusical

19 күн бұрын

@@jeffreywillstewart Interesting, I've never considered Eddie as a leading man. I thought it was an unusual choice when he was cast as Marius in Les Mis.

I didn't love or hate it, but my review as I left the theater last week was that it's "overly reimagined". Didn't help that there's no chemistry between Sally and Cliff and his queer experience is brushed aside completely. In fact, all the queer elements have been so flattened out that they are barely a blip in this production. A disappointing production overall...

@MatthewHardyMusical

4 күн бұрын

Thanks for joining the convo. Yeh, that's what I love about the movie adaptation and how Bob Fosse delved into Cliff's bisexuality. But Bob was always about the SEX.

@cripbabe111

4 күн бұрын

@@MatthewHardyMusical Bob indeed WAS always about the SEX. I never saw the original onstage - only the revival with Alan Cumming and Natasha Richardson - which was BRILLIANT - and of course the film (a zillion times), but the friend I saw this current one with and I are both former agents, so we're harsh critics and we both felt the same way, so I think we were spot on. We also thought the pre-show was absurd...

@MatthewHardyMusical

4 күн бұрын

​@@cripbabe111 Yeh the pre-show is strange. I don't like pre-show music for musicals because it never matches with the shows score. I agree the Alan/Natasha revival was SO good. They raised the bar and it's going to be difficult for a production to top that.

FLOP!

@MatthewHardyMusical

Ай бұрын

Awww. Don't say that. It was a hit in London! I hope it has a decent run. I want theater people to get paid!

@donnyslader9025

Ай бұрын

@@MatthewHardyMusical So American's either don't see true art or the British have low standards! :)

@MatthewHardyMusical

19 күн бұрын

@@donnyslader9025 Neither Americans nor Brits are a monolith. You will find a variety of reactions to theatrical productions on both sides of the pond. Also remember that the Broadway production is not a carbon copy of the West End production. Many times I have enjoyed a production more on the west end than I have on broadway and vice versa.

@larryabramsky1214

14 күн бұрын

@@MatthewHardyMusical I JUST SAW THIS 'CABARET' IN LONDON ON 5/11/24. AN AMERICAN THEATER PROFESSIONAL SINCE 1975, I FOUND THIS NEW VERSION OF 'CABARET' THE MOST BIZARRE TWISTED PIECE OF SHIT I'VE EVER SEEN, AND THAT SAYS QUITE A LOT. THEY HAVE TURNED AN ICONIC HISTORY MAKING BROADWAY MUSICAL OF 1965 INTO A SICK, MORBID, HORROR STORY.

@MatthewHardyMusical

13 күн бұрын

@@larryabramsky1214 Thanks Larry! It is dark and bizarre. But hey, maybe that's what some people are into? And truthfully, the rise of the Nazis was a sick, morbid horror story. But I get it, I like a little more light and joy in my theater experience before being plunged into the darkness and despair.

Reviewed as "The Worst Musical on Broadway"...

@MatthewHardyMusical

Ай бұрын

Who said? Did they not see Heart of Rock and Roll?

@JewishJeff839

Ай бұрын

@@MatthewHardyMusical Reviewers.

CABARET sucks! Leave it alone already!!! It's been OVERDONE NOW!!! 🤮