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Cabaret
The Grand, Leeds/Touring
3/5
REALITY TV shows and musicals have become the routes of choice for ex-pop starlets wanting to relaunch their careers and Rufus Norris’s latest revival of Cabaret features two - Pop Idol runner-up Will Young and former Eternal member Louise Redknapp - with widely varying results.
Young, reprising his Olivier award-nominated role as Emcee of the permissive and seedy cabaret Kit Kat Klub in 1931 Berlin, brings just the right amount of leery flamboyance to the role and manages to navigate the passage through decadence and brutal undercurrents as the nazis grow in power.
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