The Olivier Award-winning revival of 'Cabaret,' starring a physically precise and theatrically audacious Eddie Redmayne, comes to Broadway but misses his London co-star, Jesse Buckley
If ambience were the secret to theatrical success, the new Broadway revival of 'Cabaret' that opened on Sunday at the August Wilson Theatre would be the hit of the year. The venue has been transformed into the Kit Kat Club, the Weimar era Berlin nightspot, where the naughty pastiche score by John Kander and Fred Ebb gets to strut its decadent stuff. A prologue invites theatergoers to immerse themselves in the boozy, burlesque spirit of the show before it properly begins.
Rankin appears to have stepped into an interpretation of the part that she hasn't the same skill set to pull off. Not only is her singing raucous but her characterization is off-putting, even antipathetic. Why Clifford Bradshaw , the bisexual American writer who is on the lam in Berlin from his parents’ conventional expectations, has decided to shack up with Sally, a tawdry chanteuse whose sad-sweet charm is nowhere in evidence, is one of the unanswered mysteries of this revival.
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