Cabaret, part 4, posts starting 10/19/24

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Eddie Redmayne, who played his final performance last month as the Emcee in the new Broadway revival of “Cabaret,” confirmed during a television appearance on “The View” that he recently returned to the production as an audience member to check out Adam Lambert, who took over his former role. Although “Cabaret” marks Lambert’s Broadway debut, before he won fame on “American Idol,” he was an ensemble member and understudy in the touring production of “Wicked” back in 2005. Redmayne said that Lambert was “so magnificent” and that he was “blown away.”

Last week, I revisited the immersive and critically divisive revival. (Auli’i Cravalho of “Moana,” who recently took over as Sally Bowles, was out at my performance.) Lambert is indeed stunning, channeling his flamboyant stage presence and vocal prowess into the complex and mysterious role and making it his own. Whereas Redmayne seemed to be working overtime to create a nightmarish, physically and vocally-twisted Emcee, Lambert is much more at ease in the raunchy, gender-fluid nightclub environment while retaining the character’s sinister edge.

The acclaimed 1990s revival of “Cabaret” (which ran through 2004) featured a lot of interesting replacement casting for both the Emcee (including Raúl Esparza, Neil Patrick Harris, Adam Pascal, and John Stamos) and Sally Bowles (including Katie Finneran, Gina Gershon, Deborah Gibson, Molly Ringwald, Brooke Shields, and Lea Thompson). Perhaps this “Cabaret” will follow suit.


www.amny.com/entertainment/broadway/adam-lambert-takes-over-emcee-cabaret/

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CABARET at THE KIT KAT CLUB with Adam Lambert and Auli'i Cravalho

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