This blockbuster production of the classic 1966 Kander and Ebb musical, immortalised on film with Liza Minelli in 1972, opened in London in December 2021. It was sensationally headlined by Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley, who went on to win two of the show’s seven Olivier Awards.
Redmayne will debut the role on Broadway this April while the original London show has just announced that supermodel, actor and musician Cara Delevigne will play Sally Bowles, with Luke Treadway as the Emcee, taking over from Jake Shears and Rebecca Lucy Taylor.
Delevigne said:” There are no words to explain the excitement I have to return home to make my stage debut in such an iconic role. I am so inspired by the brilliant actors who have played Sally in past productions around the world and in this one in the West End. I cannot wait to be a part of this brilliant cast and production.”
Delevigne has starred in big-screen blockbusters like Suicide Squad and major TV shows like Only Murders In The Building and American Horror Story, but this will mark her London stage debut.
Treadaway, by comparison, already has an Olivier for the lead role in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and has also starred in productions like War Horse and Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf alongside numerous TV and film roles.
He said:”I can’t wait to become a member of the Kit Kat Club and join this extraordinary production. It’s a huge thrill to be asked to take this on and I’m very excited to get started.”
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This inventive production immerses audiences in the world of 1930’s Berlin, a time of desperate hedonism increasingly overshadowed by the menacing rise of Nazism.
London’s Playhouse Theatre has been totally transformed into the KIT KAT CLUB, the interiors remodeled to create a cabaret venue in the round. A separate company of performers entertains atop bars and behind beaded curtains around the venue for an hour before the main show starts, so make sure you get there early.
The main show of course includes all the iconic numbers like Wilkommen, Maybe This Time, Money and the title number.
CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB IS CURRENTLY PLAYING AT THE PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
