![]() ![]() The minimalistic set is almost a playground for the performers: they climb all over the scaffolding during their numbers. In spite of her circumstances, she desperately wants to be a star, and her potential to achieve this dream shines when Ewing sings. One cannot help but wonder how much of her disregard for the realities around her is influenced by the drugs and gin, and how much is plain ignorance. Ewing’s Sally is world-weary yet optimistic. However, the audience still cannot resist being drawn to him as he flirts with and mocks them.Īnother star standout was Allison Ewing, who stepped in as Sally Bowles for our performance. While dressed similarly to Cumming’s 1998 Emcee, Harrison’s Emcee is more callous - almost malevolent. He serves as the Greek Chorus, foreshadowing the ever impending political climate and moving the story along. The sardonic and sensual Emcee, played by Randy Harrison (“Queer as Folk”), intermittently punctuates the storyline. Their story, along with a secondary plot involving the members of Fräulein Schneider’s boarding house, where Bradshaw is residing, is told against the rise of the Nazi Party. Bradshaw is quickly introduced to the seedy Kit Kat Club, where he meets the flirtatious and often guileless Sally Bowles, who forces her way into his life. “Cabaret” follows struggling American novelist Cliff Bradshaw as he arrives in 1930s Berlin, where the arts were king and sexuality was a little more fluid, including his own. This version of the musical is a touring production of the Roundabout Theater Company’s 2014 Broadway revival of Sam Mendes’ (“American Beauty”) Tony Award-winning 1998 revival, which skyrocketed Alan Cumming (“The Good Wife”) into fame. “Leave your troubles outside, so life is disappointing? Forget it! We have no troubles here! Here life is beautiful,” croons the Emcee in the opening number “Willkommen.” As the audience is drawn into the captivating and bawdy world of “Cabaret,” they forget those troubles until their politics are echoed back to them.
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