Prequel to Northern Lights, adapted by Bryony Lavery and directed by Nicholas Hytner. He’s the one who did it.īridge theatre, London SE1, 30 Nov-26 Feb And I would say hats off to him, because he changed the face of musical theatre. “All of us contributed our best work to it and it was a very healthy and close collaboration, but this piece was Hal. “I have to say at the outset that Cabaret is Hal Prince,” Kander confirms. It was Hal Prince, the original director, who came up with the breakthrough idea that the songs of the Emcee, played directly to the audience, would be a metaphor for the soul of Germany as the Nazis rose to power. The idea of adapting Christopher Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel Goodbye to Berlin into a musical had been floating around for some time, when Joe Masteroff – as book writer – and Kander and Ebb came on board. The truth is that when Cabaret premiered on Broadway in 1966, it was already bold enough. “Whether or not to put the whole show in the Kit Kat club was something that was discussed when we wrote it,” he says (the original Cabaret has two areas of stage space, one for “real life”, one for the club).
But Kander, now 94 and – talking from his home in Accord, New York, where he lives with his husband, Albert Stephenson – doing an impression of a sprightly 75-year-old, is leaning forward, nodding. She pauses and laughs, as she considers the fact that she’s discussing her ideas for staging Cabaret in front of one of the people who created it. You’re not looking into a picture of a room from another time.” There are so many colours in the work and people will interpret it in different ways. The audience is very present with the actors and you are able to pull out more contemporary threads. What’s interesting about working in this space in the round is that it is so immediate. “There is something about a proscenium arch that is tricky because you can feel that you are looking through a view-finder. On Zoom, she looks tired – it’s the day before the dress rehearsal – but her enthusiasm for the show and the staging is infectious. She is only the second woman to direct a major production of Cabaret. By 2014, they were engaged, tying the knot in a small ceremony at the Babington House in Somerset, England, in December of the very same year.It was Redmayne’s star power and persistence that helped assemble the team that has now rebuilt and reshaped the Playhouse theatre in London’s West End into a version of the Kit Kat club, the setting in Weimar Berlin for Cabaret’s dark story of dreams and desire in the shadow of the Nazis’ rise to power.īut it is Frecknall, who won such acclaim for her radical production of Tennessee Williams’s Summer and Smoke, who is now driving the piece on to the stage. The 35-year-old celeb and his PR executive love reportedly started dating at the beginning of 2012 and took their relationship public that December, when they showed up together on the red carpet for the London premiere of Les Misérables. The duo made the announcement after appearing at an event in East London earlier today, sparking rumors around a potential addition to the family. “Eddie and Hannah are delighted to confirm they are expecting a second child,” a spokesperson for the actor confirmed to Us Weekly. Just over a year after the couple welcomed their first child, daughter Iris, into the world (on Father’s Day, no less!), the pair has just announced that their second little muggle is on the way! Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them star Eddie Redmayne and his wife Hannah Bagshawe have some exciting news to share with fans.
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