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Some Critics Don’t Understand the ‘Cabaret’ Broadway Revival. Young Women Do. (Guest Column)
Rebecca Frecknall brings a female perspective to 'Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.' Is that why male critics are missing the point?
When she sings the show’s title number (which takes place in this production after the character’s offstage abortion) we see a modern Sally: raw and real; more than likely in emotional and physical pain. John Kander, who composed “Cabaret,” described elements of this production as “stunningly reinvented.” Plenty of younger critics and audience members get it, and have praised Rankin for the same realism that others have balked at. Nevertheless, the reaction to “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” serves as a stark reminder of how much work is left to be done if Broadway is to truly become the bastion of progressivism that so many of its patrons believe it to be.
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