Cabaret new cast announced: Maude Apatow & Mason Alexander Park

The producers of Olivier Award-winning musical Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club has revealed the next cast for the show.

Maude Apatow, star of HBO’s Euphoria, will play Sally Bowles, and star of NBC’s Quantum Leap and Netflix’s Sandman, Mason Alexander Park, will play ‘The Emcee’.

Joining them will be Beverley Klein (Fiddler on the Roof, Les Miserables) as Fraulein Schneider and Teddy Kempner (Caroline, or Change, City of Angels) as Herr Schultz.

At certain performances, the role of Sally Bowles will be played by Emily Benjamin.

The cast also includes Nathan Ives Moiba as Cliff Bradshaw, Danny Mahoney as Ernst Ludwig, Michelle Bishop as Fraulein Kost, and Gabriela Benedetti, Emily Benjamin, Charles Croysdill, Laura Delany, Sally Frith, Matthew Gent, Ying Ue Li, Ela Lisondra, Chris O’Mara, Grant Neal, Hicaro Nicolai, Adam Taylor, Toby Turpin, Patrick Wilden and Sophie Maria Wojna.

The Prologue Company currently includes Rachel Benson, Ami Benton, Laura Braid, Reuben Greeph, James Hastings, Samantha Ho, Emma Holt, Liz Kamille, Andrew Linnie, Aine McLoughlin and Callum Sterling.

The new cast will perform from 29 May 2023.

*Cabaret – New cast: Maude Apatow & Mason Alexander Park in character as Sally Bowles and The Emcee*

The current lead cast of the show, John McCrea as The Emcee and Aimee Lou Wood as Sally Bowles, will finish up on 27 May 2023.

Maude Apatow said in a press statement: “Playing Sally Bowles has always been a dream of mine, and I am so grateful to be joining such a spectacular production.”

Mason Alexander Park said: “I am so thrilled to be joining this remarkable production playing a role that has changed my life continuously over the years, in a show that is unfortunately more timely than ever. I remember being so moved by the show last year, and turning over my shoulder with tears in my eyes at the interval to see Maude Apatow perched behind me. Cut to a full calendar year from that performance, and we will be doing our first preview paired together as Emcee and Sally. To sing these songs and tell this story as a trans person in a time in which many of the themes of the show are slowly reentering the public consciousness, with politicians targeting my community and the communities at the center of this piece is a harrowing, exciting, and necessary challenge that I am so looking forward to taking on. Come to the Cabaret!”

Cabaret opened in December 2021 to critical and audience acclaim, and won a record-breaking seven Olivier Awards, the most for any musical revival in Olivier history.

Cabaret boasts music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Joe Masteroff, based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood.

The show is directed by Rebecca Frecknall, with set and costume design is by Tom Scutt with choreography by Julia Cheng. Musical supervision is by Jennifer Whyte and musical direction is by Ben Ferguson with lighting design by Isabella Byrd and sound design by Nick Lidster. The casting director is Stuart Burt and the associate director is Jordan Fein.

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