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Adam Lambert on Playing the Emcee in Broadway’s ‘Cabaret,’ and Why Its Anti-Fascist Themes Hit Even Harder Now Than When He Began the Run: ‘It’s Wild, How Relevant It Is’
Adam Lambert is fulfilling a long-time dream, starring as the emcee in 'Cabaret' on Broadway. He talks about how its themes resonate even more in 2025.
Adam Lambert is currently living out a dream, playing the role of the Emcee in the current Broadway run of “ Cabaret,” or, as it’s officially known in this production, “ Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.” That extended titling reflects just how immersive the club-like transformation of the August Wilson Theatre is meant to be, with Lambert as host to an intimate, in-the-round audience in his first leading role on Broadway, every bit as impishly sensual — or should it be sensually impish? It’s not an overstatement to suggest that this is a role he was born to play, and it’s his extra fortune, good or mixed, to be doing it at a time when no one could have anticipated that “Cabaret” would feel so utterly freshly written. And then the other cool thing about this production is, they also focused on other types of “others” in society, and they really leaned into the queer community that a lot of people probably don’t know was there in Berlin in the ‘20s and super progressive and liberal.
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