Willkommen! The 2021 London cast recording of Cabaret is out this week on Friday 20th January via Decca Records.
The highly anticipated recording, starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley (with musical supervision and direction by Jennifer Whyte, presented by ATG Productions and Underbelly), celebrates the first anniversary of the award-winning musical – one of the most successful shows of all time.
Recorded live during a performance, with the exceptional in-house band at the Kit Kat Club, the award-winning 2021 London cast stars Oscar, SAG, BAFTA, Tony and Olivier award-winner Eddie Redmayne as The Emcee and British Independent Film award and Olivier winner, Oscar, BAFTA and 2022 Mercury Prize nominee Jessie Buckley as Sally Bowles. Here, the atmosphere and energy of the show is captured perfectly, for the very first time.
Marking a year since the new production opened at the Kit Kat Club (a transformed Playhouse Theatre) in London, when it immediately became one of the hottest tickets in town, the release of this album means that the doors are open to everyone, to be discovered and enjoyed by all.
Eddie Redmayne says of the recording: “Getting to perform John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff’s extraordinary piece with a staggering troupe at the Kit Kat Club in the heart of London was the stuff that dreams are made of. I am so thrilled that a recording that hopefully catches the intimacy and the immediacy of the production is finding its way out into the world.”
Garnering five-star reviews from the critics, Cabaret swept the boards at this year’s Olivier Awards winning a staggering seven awards. It became the most award-winning revival of a musical in Olivier history and the first ever musical or play to win in all four acting categories, for Eddie Redmayne, Jessie Buckley, Liza Sadovy (Fraulein Schneider) and Elliot Levey (Herr Schultz), who all feature on the album.
Cabaret features some of the most iconic songs in musical theatre, including Wilkommen, Money, If You Could See Her, Tomorrow Belongs To Me and Two Ladies, here with lead vocals from Redmayne and Don’t Tell Mama, Mein Herr, Maybe This Time, Perfectly Marvellous and of course title track Cabaret, with lead vocals from Buckley.
Jessie Buckley says of the recording: “So excited to share this live recording of Cabaret with you all. We loved every minute creating this world with the effervescent life force of our Kit Kat company and musicians that made it come to life night after night. I hope you find a way to disappear back into the Kit Kat Club and love hearing the music play as much as we did.”
To celebrate the release of the Cabaret (the Musical) London 2021 cast recording on Decca records, Eddie Redmayne, who won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as The Emcee in this production, speaks to music and culture journalist Lauren Laverne about his experiences in the show, whilst they listen to each number from the newly released cast recording. The special broadcast will take place on Friday 20th January at 7pm.
Listeners can tune in via: Instagram Live (@kitkatclubldn) or YouTube Live at https://www.youtube.com/@kitkatclubldn.
Out now on Decca Records here.
Tracklist
1. Willkommen (Eddie Redmayne as The Emcee)
2. So What (Liza Sadovy as Fraulein Schneider)
3. Don’t Tell Mama (Jessie Buckley as Sally Bowles)
4. Mein Herr (Jessie Buckley)
5. Perfectly Marvellous (Jessie Buckley, Omari Douglas as Cliff Bradshaw)
6. Two Ladies (Eddie Redmayne, Sally Frith as Frenchie, Sophie Maria Wojna as Rosie)
7. It Couldn’t Please Me More (Liza Sadovy, Elliot Levey as Herr Schultz)
8. Tomorrow Belongs To Me (Eddie Redmayne)
9. Maybe This Time (Jessie Buckley)
10. Money (Eddie Redmayne)
11. Married (Elliot Levey, Liza Sadovy, Anna Jane Casey as Fraulein Kost)
12. Tomorrow Belongs To Me – Reprise (Anna Jane Casey, Stewart Clarke as Ernst Ludwig)
13. Kickline
14. If You Could See Her (Eddie Redmayne)
15. What Would You Do? (Liza Sadovy)
16. I Don’t Care Much (Eddie Redmayne)
17. Cabaret (Jessie Buckley)
18. Finale (Omari Douglas, Eddie Redmayne)
