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CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
jacobsnchz14
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#1CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/20/24 at 4:41pm
London’s hottest ticket has arrived on Broadway with Academy® and Tony Award® winner Eddie Redmayne reprising his Olivier Award-winning performance as the Emcee, and introducing Gayle Rankin as the Toast of Mayfair, SallyBowles.
CABARET has music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Joe Masteroff – based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by ChristopherIsherwood.
The show is celebrating its opening this evening at the specially-revamped August Wilson Theatre, with an official opening and reviews being published tomorrow, Sunday, April 21.
TaffyDavenport
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#2CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 5:39pm
Embargo lifts at 9:30 p.m.
Robbie2
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TaffyDavenport
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#4CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 8:57pm
Adam Feldman usually posts on Twitter what time each of his reviews will be released.
Robbie2
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#5CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:07pm
TaffyDavenport said: "Adam Feldman usually posts on Twitter what time each of his reviews will be released."
TY thought so I don't follow him
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."Sunday in the Park with George
MemorableUserName
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#6CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:11pm
AMNY
Review | Come for the preshow, stay for the ‘Cabaret’
EDSOSLO858
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#7CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:26pm
Recency bias will likely push this production past Merrilyin most of their eligiblecategories.
Oh look, a bibu!
MemorableUserName
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#8CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:28pm
NY Stage Review
Cabaret: Come for the Pre-Show, and Oh, There’s Also the Musical
By Frank Scheck
★★★★☆ Eddie Redmayne plays the Emcee in this Broadway transfer of the heralded, immersive London production.
https://nystagereview.com/2024/04/21/cabaret-come-for-the-pre-show-and-oh-theres-also-the-musical/
Cabaret: Immersive, Ambitious, All Too Timely
★★★★☆ The August Wilson Theatre has been transformed into the Kit Kat Club. Would you like to buy a girl a drink?
https://nystagereview.com/2024/04/21/cabaret-immersive-ambitious-all-too-timely/
MemorableUserName
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#9CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:31pm
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.
Updated On: 4/21/24 at 09:31 PM
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#11CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:35pm
Theatermania is negative:
Review:CabaretReturns to Broadway in an Incoherent Revival
Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in a semi-immersive production of the great Kander and Ebb musical.
"The result is a superficial fairytale of a Berlin overrun with hooker clowns and cartoon Nazis, something that bears little resemblance to the insidious creep of authoritarianism in our own world.It can’t happen here, this production seems to reassure its well-heeled audience. And it really feels as though we are all fast asleep."
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#12CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:36pm
A from Entertainment Weekly
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Clubreview: Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin dazzle in jaw-dropping Broadway revival
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to the hottest new show on Broadway.
DAME
Broadway LegendJoined: 4/15/04
#13CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:39pm
Timeout basically pans it.
HUSSY POWER!------ HUSSY POWER!
Updated On: 4/21/24 at 09:39 PM
MemorableUserName
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#14CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:39pm
Holdren in Vulture is mixed or negative, and correct as usual.
Dancing on the Surface inCabaretandOrlando
"Atmosphere is all in the loose hustle and bustle of a pre-show, but in a play proper, it can only carry you so far. While Frecknall has put a lot of energy into giving Cabaret a glow-up—Sleep No More mood board, Eddie Redmayne in a party hat—she hasn’t provided the show underneath the makeover with sufficient focus or muscle. Choreographer Julia Cheng and production designer Tom Scutt help give scenes striking shapes and looks, but Frecknall’s lead performers exude the feeling that they’ve either been left to their own devices or that the main note they’ve received has been some version of “Just make it weird and different.” It’s a banal problem to mention, but John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote some wildly good songs, and all too often, I couldn’t really hear them. If this Cabaret were a cake, Paul Hollywood would shake his head and sigh, northern-ly: Style over soobstance."
Updated On: 4/21/24 at 09:39 PM
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#15CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:40pm
The fact Hell’s Kitchenis a Critic’s Pick and this is a dour mixed (sounds negative to me) review makes my head spin off my shoulders.
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#16CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:40pm
NYTimes: ‘Cabaret’ Review: What Good Is Screaming Alone in Your Room? ‘Cabaret’ Review: What Good Is Screaming Alone in Your Room? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/21/theater/cabaret-review-eddie-redmayne.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mU0.0N2x.sP3nglBP1i5_
Fordham2015
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#17CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:40pm
I thought Jesse's "person next to you" line in Notebook would be my favorite quip of his this season, but there's some stiff competition in this review:
"The problem for me is that “Cabaret” has a distinctive profile already. The extreme one offered here frequently defaces it."
"But too often a misguided attempt to resuscitate the show breaks its ribs."
"The point of Sally, and of “Cabaret” more generally, is to dramatize the danger of disengagement from reality, not to fetishize it."
Plus calling the pre-show "throat-clearing."
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#18CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:43pm
Is this another "raves in London, so we have to hate it in NY?" Or is it really as bad as these reviews make it seem. Either way, that $26 million's gotta be a weight on somebody's shoulders right about now. And hey, the name recognition will probably pull it through, but the path seems a little tougher than maybe was previously thought?
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#19CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:44pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "Recency bias will likely push this production past Merrilyin most of their eligiblecategories."
Might want to re-think that with these decidedly mixed reviews.
I still think Cabaret will do well with Tony noms but these reviews are more mixed than I thought they'd be. Probably won't impact their astronomical ticket sales. It feels a little bit like this season's version of The Music Man
Updated On: 4/21/24 at 09:44 PM
Randy1
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#20CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:44pm
Adam Feldman in Time Out is more than basically a pan. It's a pan.
Jordan Catalano
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#21CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:45pm
It’s quite a bit more than 26 million, I’m told.
Fordham2015
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#22CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:45pm
And this from Holdren:
"As the Emcee, Eddie Redmayne is on his own look-at-me planet. His singing voice never leaves a plugged-up, somewhat Muppet-y place somewhere behind his nose, and his physical palette is all coyly twirling fingers and hunched-up, leering Gollum poses. He’s clearly lovingdoing a voice, but his diction is a mess. Far too many of the razor-edged lyrics that come out of his mouth are nearly indecipherable."
With this mixed reception, Merrily may have just won the revival Tony
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#23CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:45pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "Recency bias will likely push this production past Merrilyin most of their eligiblecategories."
Boy, were you premature with this, lol
Updated On: 4/21/24 at 09:45 PM
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#24CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (2024) Opening Night Critics' Reviews
Posted: 4/21/24 at 9:46pm
2 1/2 stars from NY Post
‘Cabaret’ Broadway review: Revival with Eddie Redmayne is luxe — and bleak
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#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.”