Jake Shears & Rebecca Lucy Taylor add an extra week to their Cabaret run, new video released

The stars of Rebecca Frecknall’s production of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London have extended their runs, with Jake Shears as The Emcee and Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem as Sally Bowles now playing to Saturday 27 January 2024.

They had originally been starring in the show until 20 January.

Last week Cabaret also announced that it is extending its run in the West End, and is now booking to 28 September 2024.

Producers of the show have also dropped a brand new video of Jake Shears, Rebecca Lucy Taylor and the cast of the show.

The Cabaret cast also includes Nathan Ives Moiba as Clifford Bradshaw, Beverley Klein as Fraulein Schneider and Teddy Kempner as Herr Schultz, Jessica Kirton as Fraulein Kost/Fritzie, Wilf Scolding as Ernst Ludwig, Nic Myers, who plays alternate Sally Bowles once a week, Liv Alexander as Texas, Natalie Chua as Frenchie, Laura Delany as Rosie, Taite-Elliot Drew as Hans, Damon Gould as Victor, El Haq Latief as Helga, Grant Neal as Herman/Max, Hicaro Nicolai as Lulu and Travis Ross as Bobby, alongside Rebecca Lisewski, Ela Lisondra, Nic Myers, Andy Rees, Toby Turpin and Patrick Wilden. The prologue company is Rachel Benson, Ami Benton, Onyemachi Ejimofor, Joseph Hardy, Liz Kamille, Andrew Linnie, Aine McLoughlin, Jack William Parry, Jazmyn Raikes, Oliver Stockley and Ena Yamaguchi.

Cabaret is directed by Rebecca Frecknall, 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 and prologue director is Jordan Fein. The prologue composer and musical director is Angus MacRae.

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 has 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.

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