Cabaret | Olivier Awards 2022 (feat. Amy Lennox with introduction by Eddie Redmayne)
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Introduced by Eddie Redmayne, Amy Lennox performs 'Cabaret' from Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club at the Olivier Awards 2022.
Established in 1976, the Olivier Awards celebrate the world-class status of London theatre, and are Britain’s most prestigious stage honours. The show won a record-breaking seven Olivier Awards, including Best Musical Revival.
Book tickets from £30 direct via box office: kitkat.club
In a time when the world is changing forever, there is one place where everyone can be free…
Welcome to the Kit Kat Club. Home to an intimate and electrifying new production of CABARET. This is Berlin. Relax. Loosen up. Be yourself.
One of the most successful musicals of all time, this new West End production features the songs Wilkommen, Don’t Tell Mama, Mein Herr, Maybe This Time, Money and the title number Cabaret - with Berlin’s famous Kit Kat Club brought to life through the transformation of London’s Playhouse Theatre.
CABARET AT THE KIT KAT CLUB has music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Joe Masteroff - based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood.
Being American and being raised on Liza Minelli's Sally Bowles, I find this performance utterly electrifying and frightening at the same time. This Sally is VERY different, I'm surmising much more appropriate for the time in Berlin. She's hanging on by a thread, and she is shoving it down our throats that "you better fcuking like this or else". I can smell the mildew in the air, the stale cigarette smoke and sweat. Just wow!
This performance alone deserves an Olivier... seriously... so many layers... a woman having a nervous brekadown on stave while dealing with all her stuff, while having to be cheery... its amazing...
nah
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one of, if not the best, interpretations of sally ive ever seen. absolutely amazing, this performance alone deserved an award
People saying “this is a terrible performance”, THAT’S. THE. FUCKING. POINT!! Sally Bowles isn’t a big Broadway star, she works in a seedy nightclub in Berlin, she is meant to be a mediocre singer, plus at this point in the show she had just aborted her baby and been through a breakup, not to mention the ever present threat of the Nazis coming to power, this scene is Sally hanging on by her fingernails mentally, and Amy was utterly phenomenal in her portrayal of this! I saw her in the show last year, and my god it’s one of the most astounding individual performances I’ve ever seen in a theatre, and I’ve seen a LOT of shows!
i've seen a lot of shows too, and i'm very well aware of the dramaturgy surrounding the musical. this is still a really overwrought, cringeworthy performance. this stuff is subjective, yo
@@AKooooooooit’s almost like you didn’t listen to him at all.
Thank you🙏🏽 I heard the exact same thing when I saw Jennifer Jason-Leigh do the role on Broadway in the mid 90s. It’s not supposed to be Liza Minnelli folks.
@@victordunson719 that's like saying every actor who cries because the character is supposed to cry is doing a good job. i read what he wrote, thanks...
If you did read what I wrote, it clearly didn’t actually register in your brain 🤦🏻♂️
You can see the whole life of a struggling woman. I aspire to be able to play the way she plays that character. Incredible
That is literally one of the most brilliant performances and renditions of the maddening of Sally Bowles that I have ever seen. I feel blessed and fortunate to have witnessed this performance, this artistry. Just WOW! Bravo Bravo Bravo
Sally Bowles wasn’t mad, she was amoral and opportunistic.
Not really. You have to actually act the song. She doesn't act the song at all. Just crazy!
this was not good lol
That awkward gesture is proof of her perfect performance
This performance is the non plus ultra. She captured the tragicomic essence of Sally Bowles. Absolutely chilling.
Impeccably flawed. What a stellar performance.
Without a doubt the greatest interpretation of Sally Bowles I have ever seen, and I've seem most all. Christopher Isherwood, who wrote the source material, famously disliked the most famous Sally, Liza Minelli, because she was too polished. Amy Lenox shows us the desperation, the self-delusion, and the mediocre talent of the literary Sally Bowles. This rendition floors me.
Still though, can’t help but adore Liza.
Let’s not forget Jane Horrocks guys, she was phenomenal
@@adamdrummer1991 the best
I love an unhinged Sally ❤
@@shmeshica_cyou would like Jane Horrocks, maybe even more than this version
I finally “get” Cabaret. Amazing performance. Just amazing.
People who have only heard the song and never seen the show, I think that the song cabaret is upbeat and uptempo and cheery and come on down and have a good time. Without the context, you don't understand or appreciate the horror that is going on in Berlin, and what is happening to Sally and her own life. I am absolutely astounded at how brilliantly Amy Lennox captures it. It's meant to be horrifying. And she accomplishes it spectacularly.
I had only heard the score in separate parts until I saw the show and I was floored when the armband was revealed. Then it made more sense.
This is the only "Cabaret" rendition that's made me cry - absolute 10/10 on the vulnerability and clear conflict!
The criticism from people of this performance, is cause they haven’t seen it in context. This is at the end of almost 3hrs of theatre experience and performance. This show version is not the Hollywood shiny version. But is brilliant once seen in full context. Sally at this stage about to have a full breakdown and this point the song is a juxtaposition against where the show and the world is at to where the show and story finishes.
The traditional staging version is the musical theatre society and this version is the dramasoc take on the show. Wow. I need to see it irl 🎉
I was lost at the start but by the end I was completely blown away. You have to judge the desperation by how it ends up.
The BEST performance EVER!!!!!
That was haunting perfection. Standing ovation well deserved!!! 🔥🔥🔥
This single performance is, in itself, worthy of going into the annals of greatest theatrical performances.
She is amazing ! Best performance of this song I have ever heard
Amy Lennox is incredible!! I love this production
Often this song is only acted when the women can't sing, this women can sing no doubt. Quite a performance.
This performance is astounding
I saw the perfomance many times🎉 perfect Sally Bowle
Absolutely fricking brilliant. Just watched it 4 times in a row.
What a masterpiece. Incredible work, Amy!
Chills upon chills
Totally brought me to tears xx what a performance and understanding of the role xxx
The laugh at 4:18 IS CHILLING.. FUCKING INCREDIBLE
Gives me goosebumps every time!!!
Jean Smart could've done that. Great insight.
Absolute perfection.
Amy Lennox please come to New York next year ….
I would LOVE for Amy to be snapped up for the broadway production, she’s an absolute tour de force, and it was a pleasure and a privilege to see her and Fra Fee in the show last year! ❤
Just wonderful.
Absolutely sublime performance
Wow I love this performance
I think I understand it! Of course you can sing it beautifully and perfectly. The result would not be the same! She manages to capture the emotions - she doesn't take them with her? - Maybe you too? Thanks❤
This is insanely brilliant. If people criticize they don’t understand.
People are missing the point of the play. Its not meant to be pitch perfect. Its meant to show raw feelings and thats what she did. Sorry, but her performance was great.
In many ways I completey agree about all the complaints about Minelli/Fosse's interpretation of Sally Bowles being too good/too talented . At the same time many incredibly talented people performers(I'm talking Sally Bowles NOT Minelli) are incredibly fucked up and even their talent doesn't save them. For instance look at....Liza Minelli
Talent is talent you cant fake it
beautiful!!!
Amaizing
So good
This is beautiful
Queen
performance of a life time wow
Stunning!
Of topic but she really looks like pheobe bridgers
Who would let her go on in that state??!!! Where’s the HR at the Kit Kat? I mean… she’s having a MELTDOWN… 🤦
She’s supposed to be having a meltdown.
@@irishtransportenthusiast576 I think this comment was meant to be a joke, especially mention of the HR department at the KitKat 😂
Not to spoil anything for you, but the Emcee doesn't appear to care very much- 😅
I hear this song superimposed over images of the Holocaust. The horror of it. Saying wake up. Don’t you see what’s happening?
This is unbelievable and perfect
She makes me think of Helen McCrory
Why did it take so long until the great Jane Horrocks and now the great Amy Lennox finally got that Sally Bowles is not cute, is not an ingenue. Sally is a train wreck, a mess, an emotional breakdown in slow motion. Cabaret is not a cheerful work, it's about the nightmare of a societal collapse. Everyone in it is barely holding on by their fingernails.
lol now Eddie Redmayne is the MC
He was the original actor for Emcee in this production as well! But currently he's reprising the role over in Broadway.
1:13
Just me or does she remind anyone else of Heath Ledger’s Joker?
Out of tune? I dare you to sing so well out of tune.
Amazing . Unwatchably watchable ….
I understand all the comments about the rawness and dramatic nature of her performance but can we not agree that the performance would have been just as riveting had she been even a little on key?😢
Nope. No no no no!! She is more than welcome to be on key for the songs before this number, but this number specifically needs to be crazed and manic. Perfectly done in my opinion.
the character can’t truly sing so the point is to be off key. It is exetremely hard for to sing like this. One of the best versions of this song is ua-cam.com/video/qw-CdMSJNPM/v-deo.htmlsi=o0BR1nrBVjDRBnbE
For who the character is it makes sense that she should sound like this after everything that has happened to her and the country she lives in. The influences are clearer in the link provide
I dunno, when she's not yelling, she sounds on-key to me!
I'm sorry but since seeing Jane horricks as Sally at the donmar warehouse every Sally since seems a poor imitation of that performance it cannot be bettered x sorry x
Doesn't work.
It's great
@@anwynoakenshield it is!
It does when you see this as part of the whole piece of theatre.
Ok Sally is having a nervous breakdown during the song but the silly posing/staging doesn't work
Why is it all screaming
That’s the point of the song love 🫶🏽
Liza Minnelli was much more subtle and touching in her portrayal. This cover looks.... exaggerated, overstated and un-musical. What cabaret singer dresses in oversized suits?
is that the only version you’ve watched? lol
Liza’s performance is far too polished, especially given what preceded this song in the show, remember this is Sally hanging by a thread mentally, having just been through a breakup and an abortion, plus the rise of fascism in Germany ever present in the mind. She’s forcing herself to keep the show going even though she’s absolutely in bits, and Amy portrays this masterfully.
Sally has lost everything at this point, by her own hands to bury her head in the fantasy of being a performer in Berlin despite both lacking the talent to do so and being in denial that the very lifestyle that is sustaining her is being swept away by the Nazi’s anyway. At this part in this production the entire cast has shifted from the glamorous cabaret outfits to more washed out blazers to symbolise the grip of Hitlers over Berlin. Hence the outfit.
I admit it’s a lot to see out of context of the show and if Liza’s sanitised version is your only reference. But the emotions this makes you feel are all very intentional 😅
I disagree with the vocals, I think that most performers know how to switch on the "everything is good" onstage. There's a moment in the Liza Minelli version where there's this subtle look of reflection in her eyes where she realises her life, and then doubles down on the vocals. As a performer myself, I relate to the Liza version as a more accurate portrayal
Costuming aside, I would say bear in mind that the two performances are in different media. Liza's film performance allows for a more subtle approach, whereas on stage things can and should be bigger and more exaggerated. Not just because you have to communicate it to the farthest audience, but also there's an inherent artificiality in theatre anyway that a performer can lean into like she does here.
8 performances of this a week will kill her on Broadway. Too much over-the-top.
She was just fine
bruh what
I’m confused because usually when I make a comment about a performance most comments feel the same way.
But everyone seems to love this but me my ears are bleeding 🩸 lol. Terrible from start to finish I don’t mean to be mean but this song is way to big for her voice. This song just does not suit her.🥰♥️
I think others have already made the observation that Sally was a mediocre talent performing in a third rate night club... The song isn't supposed to be nice. It's supposed to be ugly... Sally is breaking down in the same way that Germany was breaking down... and it was all becoming quire ugly. I think this is good but prefer Jane Horrocks.
Sally isn't meant to be an accomplished singer. Amy is singing just as it was written. In fact, Amy is an incredible singer so she is straining and changing her natural voice just to play this part.
This comment is like reading reviews of Monet from the future. "But it's blurry? isn't this picture much clearer and prettier?" There are performances of this song that make the song pretty. This isn't that. This is acting taking precedence over the actual prettiness of the song. It takes a lot of courage for an actor to commit to a performance like this. Usually they are capable of more "polished" album-style takes on a song. But theater isn't about "pretty" and "polished". It's an art form like any other that can reflect life. And, especially for often remade theater classics, that means there can be multiple great interpretations. Because people have come before that sang this song in a more standard musical way, there is room for this one. Sally Bowles -- a raw, flawed character who actually knew someone named Elsie and accidentally got too deep on stage during one of the most volitale times in modern history -- Germany immediately before WW2
For her to use her voice in that way, with the inflections she's chosen, and the sheer force of it, takes an incredibly disciplined and talented singer. She's playing a character and is in control from start to finish - if she wasn't it would be very noticeable and she would likely lose her voice routinely.
Don't let these ppl gaslight you, this is awful from start to finish.
Ouch.
Absolutely dreadful!
Too much screaming, no?
no. thats the point. its supposed to bad performance
@@xela-p7654 I understand that but still over the top I think.
@@michaelz9892 its definitely not over the top. her entire life fell apart
Who knew Greta Thunberg sings?
Nightclub performers don't bring their baggage on stage with them ....they escape their troubles on stage and enter a world of glamour and make believe. 'The show must go on'. That's the irony, which is stupidly missed here. Earlier versions such as Liza's are infinitely better.
Am i missing something?! Totally tone deaf!😡
It's supposed to sound terrible. Sally has had so much of her life ripped away from her and this song in particular is meant to have a lot of raw emotion rather than beautiful and elegant phrasing.
congrats that's the point
sometimes Directors can push too far... A drowning cat sound is not groundbreaking theatre is it ( unless it's the film version of Cats. Eek😬) I saw a musical version of Anne Frank's story a while back.. after the first hour it was obvious it was a flop( it got so bad that when the Nazi's were looking for Jews, some queen in the audience jumped up and shouted "she's in the attic"). You can't defend crap just to make yoursrlf sound theatrically superior! There are limits to innovation and this version of Cabaret ain't it toots!...😬😬😬😬😂
@@bengarrionphoenix4207 Sally Bowles is literally supposed to be a bad singer idk why you'd be expecting flawless belting. she's having a nervous breakdown. acting always comes before singing.
Somebody should tell this fool that Elsie is not a real person Sally Bowles knew, it is a name that rhymes with Chelsea.
Really? Wow I never could've guessed that it was supposed to rhyme! Thanks for clearing it up.
god that was terrible
Most terrible version I have ever heard and seen ...
Why?
It's supposed to be emotional. She was fantastic. It isn't about singing perfectly... she acted it perfectly
You may not know that Sally Bowles, as written in "The Berlin Stories" by Christopher Isherwood, is a middling talent in a third rate cabaret, living on the margins. She's not supposed to be Liza Minnelli.
On the contrary, in context given everything that comes before it, this is an absolute perfect portrayal of Sally Bowles!
You are wrong on so many levels.
It’s supposed to be terrible! Sally just had an abortion, the love of her life left her, Nazi soldiers are closing in around her, and she hanging on by her fingernails. Sally is not supposed to be a good singer, she’s at a run down joint and realizes during the song that she’s not special. Her breakdown and performance here is phenomenal when you know the meaning of it
That was horrible and ill-conceived from start to finish. The english are not very fond of subtlety.
And americans are boring as hell. This version is beautiful and painful, like the musical.
@@AriadneRimbaud2 Snort. Musical theater is an American art form, like the work under discussion. GB has music hall- which bolsters my original point.
This is a woman who just had an abortion and forfeited her future to stay in country on the verge of the Holocaust. You expect it to be clean and precise?
@@jeffbray7417 she didn't forfeit her future- she chooses her future by having the abortion and staying, despite the warning signs. psst- that's the point (and irony) of the song she's singing. this is an overwrought performance that lacks any depth or subtlety. it is grotesque scenery chewing. i know it's crowd-pleasing to some (overindulgent often is), but it's cheap and banal.
Sally Bowles? Subtle? Yeh alright mate
TERRIBLE!!
It’s supposed to be terrible! Sally just had an abortion, the love of her life left her, Nazi soldiers are closing in around her, and she hanging on by her fingernails. Sally is not supposed to be a good singer, she’s at a run down joint and realizes during the song that she’s not special. Her breakdown and performance here is phenomenal when you know the meaning of it
Just, NO! Que horror. But "woke".
What exactly do you mean?
you're ignoring the clear context of the song in favour of your own political biases. The bad singing is an intentional choice, it's prioritising the acting of this song over the niceness of the vocals. It's not supposed to be a pleasant song. You can have your views, but try not to twist reality into what you want to see and look at the truth for once.
This is perfect. Isherwood describes Sally in The Berlin Diaries as an utterly mediocre singer but a performer who was hard to look away from. Plus she's singing after a back alley abortion. It's similar to "Let The Sunshine In" from Hair. Without the context of the show, it's a cute hippie song instead of the cast singing a funeral dirge for their friend in Vietnam.
It's not pretty, but if you get goosebumps: she did it right. This song is pretty much the last gasp of a woman's delusional, nihilistic desperation to keep the party going when the end is way too clearly in sight.
I have had the honour of seeing this show twice with 2 different casts, Eddie Redmayne and Jess Buckley and then Mason Alexander park and Maude Apatow.. Slight differences in performance styles but both equally as spectacular..
OMG. What an amazing performance. One of the best ever on any stage.
She is fantastic!
Brilliant !!
She intentionally tried to not sing well in most of the song. She only got better in the end when she stopped faking it.
Absolutely dreadful
It’s supposed to be terrible! Sally just had an abortion, the love of her life left her, Nazi soldiers are closing in around her, and she hanging on by her fingernails. Sally is not supposed to be a good singer, she’s at a run down joint and realizes during the song that she’s not special. Her breakdown and performance here is phenomenal when you know the meaning of it