Jake Shears & Rebecca Lucy Taylor extend run in Cabaret to 9 March 2024

Jake Shears and Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem to star in the West End revival of Cabaret until 9 March 2024.

Shears and Taylor play The Emcee and Sally Bowles in Rebecca Frecknall’s hot ticket revival at the Kit Kat Club in London. The pair were originally scheduled to end their run on 20 January; however extended a week due to popular demand, and not add a final six weeks of performances.

In celebration of this announcement, BBC Radio 2 will broadcast ‘Jo Whiley presents Cabaret at BBC’s Maida Vale Studios’ hosted by Jo Whiley at 8.00pm, tonight, Wednesday 6 December where Jo is joined by Jake Shears, Rebecca Lucy Taylor and the cast and orchestra of Cabaret who will perform some of their favourite numbers from the musical in an hour-long special.

Jake and Rebecca continue to star alongside Nathan Ives-Moiba as Clifford Bradshaw, Beverley Klein as Fraulein Schneider and Teddy Kempner as Herr Schultz. Nic Myers plays the role of Sally Bowles once a week.

The cast also features Wilf Scolding as Ernst Ludwig, Jessica Kirton as Fraulein Kost/Fritzie, Liv Alexander as Texas, Natalie Chua as Frenchie, Taite-Elliot Drew as Hans, Damon Gould as Victor, El Haq Latief as Helga, and Travis Ross as Bobby, joining Laura Delany as Rosie, Grant Neal as Herman/Max and Hicaro Nicolai as Lulu. The cast is completed by 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.

The production recently announced that it is extending its run in the West End, and is now booking to 28 September 2024.

Watch the trailer featuring Jake Shears and Rebecca Lucy Taylor

Cabaret 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.

The show 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.

Book tickets to Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London

Also released today are ten new production shots.