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Video Watch: Broadway Cabaret Star Adam Lambert Sings 'I Don't Care Much'

Lambert has released a new single and music video of the Kander and Ebb song.

Current Cabaret star Adam Lambert has released one of the songs from the show as a single and music video. See the American Idol star sing "I Don't Care Much" above, filmed on location at the Kit Kat Club at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway. The track is also available to stream on all platforms via The Orchard.

"’I Don’t Care Much’ is a torch song dealing with indifference that comes at a point in the show where all hope and joy has been eclipsed by the presence of Nazi forces in Berlin," explains Lambert in a statement. "We recorded this track and filmed the video just as the anxiety around the results of the 2024 U.S. election hit our community. There’s catharsis in the sadness for the listener, and I hope they can feel seen and realize they’re not alone in this moment in time.”

Lambert, alongside Auli'i Cravalho and Calvin Leon Smith, joined the Tony-nominated Broadway revival September 16. Lambert stars as The Emcee opposite Cravalho's Sally Bowles and Smith's Clifford Bradshaw. The trio succeeded original cast members Eddie Redmayne, Gayle Rankin, and Ato Blankson-Wood.

READ: Adam Lambert and Auli‘i Cravalho Are Spitting in the Face of Fascism

The current cast also includes Bebe Neuwirth as Fraulein Schneider, Steven Skybell as Herr Schultz, Michelle Aravena as Fraulein Kost and Fritzie, and Henry Gottfried as Ernst Ludwig. Rebecca Frecknall directs.

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.

READ: Calvin Leon Smith Says Immersive Cabaret Revival 'Doesn't Let the Audience (or Performers) Off the Hook'

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.

Visit KitKat.club.

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

 
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