A nondescript door on Kingsland Road opens up into a luxurious multi-room space, which designer Domhnall Nolan has filled with plush fabrics, soft lighting, mirrored fireplaces, leopard-print carpets, chequerboard floors and plaster busts. It pays homage to 20th century cabaret clubs whilst still remaining modern and fresh. In short, it's sexy.
Relying on Joe Masteroff's words; John Kander and Fred Ebb's music and lyrics; and the actors' significant talents, Director/Choreographer Erika Chong Shuch fashions an intense journey to 1930s Berlin as Hitler rises to power and the Kit Kat Klub offers a hedonistic diversion. Sarah Phykitt's minimal yet effective staging, highlighted by Stephanie Anne Johnson's haunting lighting, features a two-person band (Joshua Pollock on electric guitar, Werd Pace as DJ) on the higher level with actors performing on a lower diagonal catwalk and in the audience.
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre stages the Tony Award-winning musical based on the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film with a sort of sexy that almost needs a preservation order The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre has opted for this showgirl/guy extravaganza as its festive offering and it's certainly a Christmas cracker. Based on the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film, this high-kicking, fish-netted, head-feathered confection leans into the sexy and seedy side of cabaret but comes out smelling of romance and roses.
The show, which has built a downtown following through sold-out runs at The Paradise Factory in past years, reimagines Clara's journey as a downtown-meets-uptown fever dream set in performer Pearls Daily's first New York apartment on Christmas Eve in Harlem. Cabaret, burlesque, comedy, dance and original shadow puppetry all come out to play in the 90-minute spectacular that's guided-sometimes gently, sometimes not-by Tchaikovsky's score.
The Los Altos Stage Company presents Cabaret, one of the most iconic musicals in American theater history. With music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, and a book by Joe Masteroff (which in turn was based on a play by John Van Druten and a novel by Christopher Isherwood), the musical debuted on Broadway in 1966 and was later adapted into the 1972 film, which won legendary director-choreographer Bob Fosse his first Oscar.
