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Video: John Kander Joins CABARET Cast to Celebrate 58th Anniversary
Nov 22, 2024
Last night, legendary Broadway composer John Kander and the cast of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club at the August Wilson Theatre celebrated the 58th anniversary of the original Broadway production. Check out the video here!
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Can I just stop clapping? No
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I need to tell you something. Thanks for coming tonight
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You've all been fantastic. 58, 58 years ago tonight, Cabaret opened on Broadway
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Audiences saw this story unfold for the first time
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and heard this glorious score for the first time. Can you imagine that
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For the first time. Well, the brilliant man who composed that score and that vamp
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is here tonight. John Campbell. Thank you
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I got something to say to you first
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Oh, okay, yes please. I'll sit next to you. Okay. I've known each other
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Albert Camus said, if the world were clear, art would not exist
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What John Kander and his partner Fred Ebb and collaborators Joe Masteroff and Hal Prince created with Cabaret
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is a sublime work of art that makes the world crystal clear
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Cabaret takes place at a specific time in history, but it's themes
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Love, good standing against evil, survival, those themes are timeless. As the show has performed over the decades, it is always
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relevant, and the music, John and Fred's phenomenal score is always transcendent
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As you may have heard, this production won the Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Musical
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Tonight, as we celebrate Cabaret's 58th anniversary, it is my enormous honor just to sit next to you
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to present John Cander with this Olivier Award, recognition of a lifetime spent making unforgettable music
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a reminder of the incredible legacy he continues to build and a token of deep gratitude from a world always in need of the lessons cabaret has to offer
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You could really hurt somebody with this
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I'm going to sit down. 58 years tonight? Holy mackerel
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This is a very moving moment. for me and I accept this
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But I accept it with the spirit of Hal Prince, Joe Masteroff and my great partner, Fred Ebb
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I have to say something to this company. I haven't seen this show now for some weeks
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And my God how it grown Am I allowed to say that Adam what planet are you from
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In 1933, in 1933
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Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany and as we all know
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elections have consequences and it's
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every time there's a production of this and somebody calls me for an interview
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or just a question thing that would be undoubted almost always say, isn't it amazing how pertinent it seems
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And I always answer, isn't that terrible? And we've just had an election
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And elections have consequences. But that's not gonna spoil my goals. time tonight
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Thank you all so much for this
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