Video: Watch Broadway's Cabaret Revival Serenade Adam Lambert on His Birthday | Playbill

Video Video: Watch Broadway's Cabaret Revival Serenade Adam Lambert on His Birthday

The performance at the Kit Kat Club benefited Pride Live.

The Tony-nominated revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff's Cabaret helped Adam Lambert, who currently leads the company as the Emcee, celebrate his birthday at the January 29 performance at the Kit Kat Club (August Wilson Theatre).

Cast member David Merino led the celebration, which featured a pineapple-shaped cake, at the musical's curtain call. Watch the company and the audience serenade Lambert with "Happy Birthday" in the video above. Lambert, who continues in his role through March 29, thanked everyone in attendance, adding, "I'm an Aquarius, and in the spirit of Aquarius, we're hoping change can happen."

The performance was a special benefit for Pride Live, for which Lambert has been a longtime supporter, including serving as a founding partner of the recently opened Stonewall National Monument Visitors Center, the country’s first national park recognizing the contributions of LGBTQIA+ people.

Cabaret also stars Tony nominee Auli‘i Cravalho as Sally Bowles (through March 29), two-time Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth as Fraulein Schneider, Calvin Leon Smith as Clifford Bradshaw, Steven Skybell as Herr Schultz, Henry Gottfried as Ernst Ludwig, and Michelle Aravena as Fritzie/Kost.

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As in the production's West End run, the theatre has been transformed into an in-the-round Kit Kat Club. Ticket holders receive a "club entry time" before their show date so that everyone's able to take in the pre-show, which can even include a full dinner at some ticket levels. The prologue company, a group of 12 dancers and musicians, welcome theatregoers with a pre-show performance beginning approximately 75 minutes prior to curtain time.

Based on Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin and John Van Druten's dramatization of it, I Am a Camera, Cabaret is set in Weimar-era Berlin as American writer Clifford Bradshaw arrives to work on his novel and soak up the debaucherous nightlife. He meets English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and a complex relationship develops, all as the Nazis ascend to power and the spectre of World War II and all its horrors loom on the horizon.

The creative team also includes choreographer Julia Cheng; club, set, and costume designer Tom Scutt; lighting designer Isabella Byrd; sound designer Nick Lidster (for Autograph); and music supervisor and director Jennifer Whyte. Hair and wig design are by Sam Cox, and Guy Common is handling makeup design. Prologue composition and music direction are by Angus MacRae, with Jordan Fein serving as prologue director. Casting is by Bernard Telsey and Kristian Charbonier, and Thomas Recktenwald serves as production stage manager.

READ: In Cabaret, Set and Costume Designer Tom Scutt Wanted to Celebrate Queer Individuality

Visit KitKat.club.

Photos: Adam Lambert, Auliʻi Cravalho, and Calvin Leon Smith in Cabaret

 
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