reacting to the new CABARET cast recording | London revival album ft Eddie Redmayne + Jessie Buckley 

Who has kept Eddie Redmayne away from comedies? Man's only ever suffering in movies, when he can do this

I'm hoping they'll eventually release some video of the performance, ideally in its entirety on a streaming service. Unlikely we'll see it until after it closes in the West End.

His voice is so malleable! Love all the resonant-y bits (Go Rooound on Money sounds amazing). Jessie's voice is so rich and glorious, even under sung. Love this recording, there is so much character in here and you can tell these people were having the time of their lives performing this show, which always means the audience feeds off it so much.

Jessie Buckley is simply amazing in whatever she does - I've never seen her make a wrong move - and I've seen virtually everything she's done.

There was a funny story and epic "BURNNNNN!" involving the song "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" a few years ago. Short version: Richard Spencer is a "world famous on the internet" American white supremacist and neo-Nazi troll. He was having a Twitter war with Josh Marshall, a liberal journalist and talk show host. Marshall told Spencer that Spencer's followers should go back to the 1930s. Spencer responded with "No, tomorrow belongs to us!" and posted the 'Tomorrow Belongs to Me' scene from the film CABARET, clearly one of his favorite film moments ever. This brought a response from a good friend of Marshall's, a man who was then Secretary of State of (Marshall's home state of) Missouri, Jason Kander. The response could not have been more perfect. “Hey buddy, that song you love was written by my uncle. He’s been married to my other uncle for 40 years. And he’s a Jew. Sing it proud.” (Jason Kander is the grand-nephew of John Kander, the composing half of Kander & Ebb, creators of CABARET (and CHICAGO and KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN and other hits), and in fact attended his uncle's wedding in 2010 when he was able to legally marry his partner of many years in Canada. It's not common for people to make a professional troll shut up, but Kander's response did it. His grand-uncle doesn't tweet, but did later express delight. (John Kander is still alive as of this writing, 95 and living with his husband, Albert Stephenson, in New York.) variety.com/2017/biz/news/richard-spencer-alt-right-cabaret-twitter-jason-kander-response-1202012578/

27:02 in the original 1966 version there was a song Herr Schultz sings at the party called “Meeskite” telling the story of an ugly kid who marries an ugly girl and has a beautiful child. It makes many references to him being Jewish and it’s implied that’s what a “Meeskite” is. So in “If you could see her” the MC said “she isn’t a Meeskite at all.” They wanted it to be “Jewish” but it wasn’t allowed back then. The 1968 London production might have used “Jewish” but I don’t remember. They did it in the movie and it was kept in subsequent productions.

In the original production, the twist at the end of "If You Could See Her" received a lot of backlash, so they changed it to "she isn't a meeskite at all" which was referencing an earlier song (and a Yiddish word) that is now cut from the production. I believe it was only the Sam Mendes production that put back in "she wouldn't look Jewish at all" because the meeskite reference tended to go over the heads of most people, and it didn't have enough of an impact.

I LOVE THE NEW CAST RECORDING

They recorded it over two nights in the penultimate week of their run if i’m not mistaken, and they had signs up so that the audience knew that audio was being recorded. Also Maybe This Time and Cabaret were recorded entirely in the studio i think! Worked there for 10 months and while this cast recording is amazing, i would have loved to have a recording of fra fee and amy lennox as they were soooooo good!

I’m so happy we have Jessie Buckleys stubbornly defiant version of Cabaret forever and Eddie Hamming it up is just so fun

I love how were just feeling yourself while listening to this cast album! 😍🙌🏻🙌🏻

It's a banjo, Mickey Jo. Very common in those early jazz bands. And heard even more prominently in Kander and Ebb's Chicago.

It's amazing, been listening to it whilst working 💕

I was looking at my knitting when she yelled to put it down and I laughed so much

I love these cast record reactions, they're genuinely so much fun to watch after a long day! Well done!

I think I had one too many shots during the immersive pre-show 😂 should have waited, but I was so transported to that time and story already that it felt like I was one of them and wanted to blend in. Needless to say, I must try to go back and only have a pretzel to focus and enjoy even more the main show! Thanks for reviewing the cast recording ❤

I love this recording, one of my all time favorite "Cabaret"s. I would really like to see it transfer the the states with Redmayne and Buckley

I remember the album version of Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall having all of the spoken dialogue between the songs and I actually really enjoyed it. I kinda wish more cast albums were full recordings. Although I know that might sometimes affect someone’s desire to see the show if they can just “listen to the whole thing”. But then again sung through musicals and operas have pretty much everything.

You are a total charmer. Your love of theatre is infectious. I’ll bet my bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be sun . I like how you shared Charlie Stemp with the States. You’d have a bravo show for sure here. Thanks

I think the linden reference is not just a tree in general, but the linden and the stag (mentioned a couple lines earlier) are both big symbols in Germanic and Norse mythology, which they were trying to link their movement to, as a "continuation of a glorious past that's been stolen from us" thing.

Just stage managed Cabaret this year: the end of If You Could See Her still gets a gasp/reaction. Tomorrow Belongs To Me has a lot of allusions to Deutschlandlied (the national anthem, specifically the first and second stanzas-- the ones not used post WWII) and if you think the Kickline is long, the Entr'acte is over five minutes.

👀 you might be wearing the harness in honour of cabaret- but it's still something you own :P

the highlight for me is the brass, the sound quality is just SO good

Finally managed to see this show yesterday and it was amazing! Aimee Lou Wood brought a real vulnerability and innocence to Sally Bowles and John McCrea was flawless as the Emcee. Shout out to the theatre team who had to stop tge performance mid-scene due to a medical emergency in the audience and to Vivien Parry as Fraulein Schneider who stayed in character and said "we're stopping now, yes" in the thickest German accent before walking off. Cannot recommend this show more!

As to giving a pineapple as a gift- historically the act of giving a pineapple was a sign of hospitality and it was also associated with wealth since it was so expensive to get a pineapple from the tropics to the rest of the world.

I haven’t seen this production, and haven’t rush to listen to the cast recording, but this video here - clicked on it in seconds

Absolutely amazing recording! I just wonder why the Entracte wasn’t included before the Kickline number.

Eddie redmayne was great in les mis

Commenting mid-video, so IDK if you discuss this... but the performances work for me, but I *have* read people think they're too big and maybe it's because they're out of context to the physicality and staging things we don't get with the album, plus the vastness of a theatre performers have to fill with their energy! haha. Anyways.....

I love the videos of you reacting to cast recordings so much. This is hands down my favorite recording of the show

I'm in the middle of packing for a move & I think this would be the perfect thing for me to listen to tomorrow since I haven't checked it out yet

Outside it is winter, but in here it's also winter because I would rather wear several sweaters than run inefficient heat.

If we join do we get to see that harness sans shirt? ;) love the videos!!

I discovered your channel with this cabaret production. I live in Quebec and I have NO way to go see the show. Since you saw it so many time, I was wondering if you could do a kind of summary of what is going on stage during each song! like the costumes, the props and the sets?

Thank you! Now running to listen to this!

Jessie is just soooo good!!!

Please wear that anytime.

To answer one of your questions the sleeve notes say this was recorded at the Kit Kat Club on the 15th November 2021

"Edward please" LMAO

75 Reichsmarks in 1931 would be, very roughly, about £500 pounds today depending on how you want to slice it (e.g. for groceries it would be less than 500, though what Cliff pays for a room per month in a working class Berlin neighborhood which would today be more than 500 pounds). There was extremely high unemployment so opportunities for quick money was hard to make, especially for a foreigner. Fun fact: at the height of hyperinflation in 1923 the same room would have cost several BILLION marks per month.

With regards to "Money" I think the significance of the Yen might be that the Japanese and the Germans were allies during the war. With regards to the Kickline pre-prise it is the melody of "If you could see her through my eyes"

25:08 it’s If You Could See Her Through My Eyes if I remember right.

Mickey Jo, my luv, this would be soooo much better if we could hear the recording, too.

I was literally thinking “will he review cabaret!” And here it is

Congratulations and breaking the 50,000 mark in our next bill will be 100,000

Jessie Buckley is just the best always though.

Ready Edmaine? Lol!

“So sad, la la la” 😂😂😂

Sorry the Cabaret recording playback is barely audio. Any way you can edit it? I really enjoyed your Funny Girl listening post. I now subscribe to your site.

In answer to your entirely rhetorical moon query: the moon rises and sets each day, but over the course of ~ a month it waxes and wanes 😊

It’s a banjo at 10:01 :)

Still very pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Eddie Redmayne on this recording!

Thinking of going to see the show at some point Do you get much luck with the today tix lottery?

14:58 Well I was in a Regency LARP and a boy gave a girl a coconut (both unmarried) and it was a whole schandal- so... My friends, I guess? But in all seriousness I could tell you a LOT about the history of the pineapple as an exotic fruit and a status symbol. So if you're interested in that, let me know. The short answer is yes, in the 1920s and 1930s people absolutely did give pineapples as gifts to girls they were courting. EDIT: also, shoutout to that one time my grandma gave me a whole pineapple after a school play. My grandma always had the weirdest gifts after my performances. I did not appreciate the historical context behind giving pineapples as gifts back then tho. 😂 I was mostly embarrassed my grandma made me "look weird". Just bring flowers like the other grandmas... I ate the whole thing in the car ride home, I was really hungry... In hindsight a way better gift than flowers. So you can add my grandma to that list too. Also pretty sure my stepdad once gave my mum a pineapple at some point, but that might just have been a case of "I had this pineapple but if I kept i at my house it would've gone bad, so I brought it with me."

As someone who went to watch this with barely any knowledge of Cabaret past Maybe This Time, Money and Cabaret - I can ABSOLUTELY confirm that the “Jewish” twist made me feel ill - as did the reveal of Ludwig being a Nazi.

I always find dance break numbers on soundtracks difficult to listen to Chicago springs to mind

10.00 is a banjo...

Will you see the show once John McCrea step in as the Emcee???

They didn’t keep - DON’T TELL MOMMA ! Sad.

why aren't you listing the big revival that started the revivals in the first place, the studio 54 revival, with Alan Cummings as the MC, and Lea Thompson as Sally?

Would of been nice to hear a little bit of what you was reacting to.

Sienna Miller was THE BEST Sally Bowles EVER!!!

Please react to the Sondheim Concert Mcintosh did that was filmed.....

Looking smoking hot in that leather, for what it's worth.

moon does set wax/wane denotes the phases. prefer Alan C. version.

Can't help but feel like Eddie Redmayne is just doing Too Much. There are parts where I really like his energy, but his constant shift in tone and cadence (especially delivering the spoken lines) are so all over the place that it's a bit distracting. Also, I have to agree with all the people on twitter saying he sounds like a Muppet, and I'm not sure I get the decision...

Jessie was too shouty on the album for me. Mein Herr/Perfectly Marvellous are ruined. And yes I've seen this production twice.

Sorry, I'm listening to it now on Spotify and Redmayne is absolutely obnoxious in the opening number. Atrociously obnoxious. It's an imitation of Paul Bettany in "Wreck it Ralph" who's actually doing an impression of Ed Wynn as The Hatter in "Alice in Wonderland". At first I thought, "am i biased because I felt like Grey was a tour de force and Cumming was a revolution?" By the time we reached Frenchie's introduction in Wilkommen that excuse dissolved. I'm now on So What and I enjoy this performance very much. it's expressive and sung in a way that is different but also not off-putting. As I move on I'm hoping Redmayne doesn't ruin the rest of his appearances too much.

I wish we could hear the recording. Really just hearing your comments which become frustrating.

The recording is too soft relative to the hosts non-stop blather. Would be better if he could give it a break once in a while, sheesh.