Jordan Catalano
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Broadway LegendJoined: 10/9/05
#25CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:46pm
There’s no way Feldman can be seen as mixed with lines like “I made an active effort to lower my expectations before seeing the latest version ofCabaret. But my lowered expectations failed. They weren’t low enough.”
EDSOSLO858
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Broadway LegendJoined: 10/28/19
#26CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:46pm
Even in an unpredictable musical season, I did NOT see this coming.
Oh look, a bibu!
Musigamist
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UnderstudyJoined: 2/5/23
#27CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:47pm
WSJ is mixed/leaning negative:https://www.wsj.com/articles/cabaret-review-eddie-redmayne-gayle-rankin-bebe-neuwirth-broadway-revival-7905c413?st=ps72ebr5cuo8tpb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Fordham2015
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Broadway StarJoined: 4/3/17
#28CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:47pm
The only thing that excited me about this revival was Bebe Neuwirth. It seems I was correct.
MemorableUserName
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Broadway LegendJoined: 3/27/19
#29CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:47pm
The Wrap is negative:
‘Cabaret’ Broadway Review: Eddie Redmayne Twists the Emcee Into a Rancid Pretzel
The Oscar-winning actor headlines a new, conflicted revival of the legendary musical
MemorableUserName
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#30CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:48pm
Village Voice:
Review: ‘Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club’ Works Too Hard But Finds Its Way
Screamed lyrics and exaggerated gestures evolve into poignancy and power.
https://www.villagevoice.com/review-cabaret-at-the-kit-kat-club-works-too-hard-but-finds-its-way/
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#31CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:50pm
Deadline is mixed
"Still, the vision never really coalesces in the way that Daniel Fish managed with that spooky, sexy Oklahoma a few years back. The promise of an overwhelming theatrical event just never quite makes good on itself, certainly not with Rankin’s teary, intentionally overwrought delivery of the title song. We get it. Sally isn’t meant to be a big star. I’d still rather hear Liza."
https://deadline.com/feature/broadway-show-reviews-spring-2024-1235866317/
Jordan Catalano
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Broadway LegendJoined: 10/9/05
DAME
Broadway LegendJoined: 4/15/04
#33CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:53pm
These are really bad reviews.
HUSSY POWER!------ HUSSY POWER!
MemorableUserName
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#34CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:53pm
Theatrely is positive
A New CABARET For The Ages On Broadway — Review
https://www.theatrely.com/post/a-new-cabaret-for-the-ages-on-broadway-review
Kad
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Broadway LegendJoined: 11/5/05
#35CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:54pm
I had a gut feeling this wouldn’t be as warmly received here as it was in London, but I was thinking more like politely mixedreviews… not these.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Dylan Smith4
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#36CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:56pm
Wow, was I not expecting this! WTF??? Well, I hope this production can prove to be critic-proof.
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince
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#37CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:57pm
I think that NY Daily News Review may be behind a paywall, so here's the Tribune version:
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#38CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:58pm
NY Sun:
Were the Bob Fosse and Sam Mendes Versions of ‘Cabaret’ Not Sufficiently Over-the-Top?
The glorious score notwithstanding, ‘Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club,’ as director Rebecca Frecknall’s immersive production has been named, is most compelling when the characters stop singing and dancing.
DramaTeach
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Broadway LegendJoined: 3/17/13
#39CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:59pm
After disliking Stereophonic and reading raves, I thought I was crazy. These have made me feel better about my own mixed reaction to Cabaret, although making me feel better doesn’t do a whole lot for the cast and crew over at the Kit Kat Club. Man, I feel for them right now because I know there was a lot of love (and money!) in this production.
DAME
Broadway LegendJoined: 4/15/04
#40CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:00pm
So.. can Broadway now be done with the immersive crap?
HUSSY POWER!------ HUSSY POWER!
Robbie2
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Broadway LegendJoined: 3/2/10
#41CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:01pm
MemorableUserName said: "Jesse Green in NYT is mixed. ‘Cabaret’ Review: What Good Is Screaming Alone in Your Room? Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in a buzzy Broadway revival that rips the skin off the 1966 musical.
Rankin’s “Maybe This Time,” with no slathered-on histrionics, is riveting. It turns out she can properly sing.
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."Sunday in the Park with George
Dylan Smith4
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Broadway LegendJoined: 7/8/20
#42CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:03pm
DAME said: "So.. can Broadway now be done with the immersive crap?"
Why?
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince
Bette's Turban
Broadway StarJoined: 7/9/17
#43CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:04pm
DAME said: "So.. can Broadway now be done with the immersive crap?"
AMEN!
dramamama611
Broadway LegendJoined: 12/4/07
#44CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:04pm
Well, if nothing else, reviews this season have kept us on our toes!
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
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#45CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:05pm
Love this from Feldman's review. It's dead-on.
"Redmayne’s waxy Emcee doesn’t register as a character at all. He’s all maleficent posturing—hunched into a question mark like some medieval demon—and he’s used that way, as a blunt recurring symbol for the rise of the Nazis. (The production has him sing the pastoral Nazi mock-anthem “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” halfway through Act I.)
The theory seems to be that increasing the Emcee’s power exponentially will make him more exciting: that energy, if you will, is equal to Emcee squared. But it merely makes him less interesting. Costumed by Scutt in a variety of outlandish get-ups—as some kind of demented Katzenjammer Kid, as a skeletal horseman-of-the-apocalypse type, as a creepy clown—he is never not creepy; he should attract us, at least for a while, but he’s repellent all along. "
EDSOSLO858
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Broadway LegendJoined: 10/28/19
#46CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:06pm
DTLI Consensus:Dark, sleek, and immersive,Cabaretis back on Broadway — and we don’t care much for it.
6 mixed (including the NYT), 4 positive, 4 negative.
https://didtheylikeit.com/shows/cabaret-at-the-kit-kat-club/
Oh look, a bibu!
Jordan Catalano
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Broadway LegendJoined: 10/9/05
#47CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:06pm
dramamama611 said: "Well, if nothing else, reviews this season have kept us on our toes!"
That’s the truth!! If you’d have told me 48 hours ago that Hells Kitchen would get SUBSTANTIALLY better reviews than Cabaret, I wouldn’t have believed you.
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#48CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:09pm
I guess the Daily Beast is back reviewing
Eddie Redmayne Excels as the Emcee in a Boozy Broadway ‘Cabaret’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/eddie-redmayne-excels-as-the-emcee-in-a-boozy-broadway-cabaret
Azúcar!
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#49CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 10:10pm
DAME said: "So.. can Broadway now be done with the immersive crap?"
THIS!
