Cabaret Tickets

About Cabaret

Cabaret was penned in 1966 by musician John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb. The musical is a rip-roaring tale of love, sex and decadence set in early thirties Weimar Germany. The cabaret is a seedy haven, a place to forget the outside world and ignore the rising tide of political change.

Show story

Cabaret focuses on the Kit Kat Club’s English singer Sally Bowles and her rocky relationship with young American writer Cliff Bradshaw. A side-plot involves the doomed love between German boarding house owner Fräulein Schneider and her Jewish tenant Herr Schultz. Overseeing the story is the Emcee, master of ceremonies at the Kit Kat Club and the musical’s narrator.

Cabaret background

Cabaret the musical and the film, together, have won eight Oscars, seven BAFTAs and 13 Tony Awards. This fourth West End version of Cabaret is directed by Rufus Norris and celebrates the musical’s fourtieth anniversary. The current cast includes Kim Medcalf (EastEnders), James Drefus (Gimme, Gimme, Gimme), Honour Blackman and Michael Hayden.

Sally at the Kit Kat Club

The leading role of Sally Bowles has been played by some very famous women. Judi Dench played Ms Bowles in the first West End production of Cabaret in 1968, while Tony Award winning British actress Natasha Richardson starred in the Broadway version and Liza Minnelli played the iconic film role. Now it’s the turn of former-Eastender Kim Medcalf to bring her own brand of ‘divine decadence’ to the Lyric stage.