Adam Lambert and Auli'i Cravalho to step into 'Cabaret' on Broadway this fall
Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho will make their Broadway debuts in the current revival of “Cabaret" starting in September.
Get ready to say willkommen to the next stars to enter the Kit Kat Club on Broadway — Adam Lambert and Auli’i Cravalho,
Producers of the Tony Award-nominated revival revealed Wednesday that Lambert, the singer-songwriter who has fronted Queen, and Cravalho, the voice of the title character in Disney’s animated musical film “Moana, “will play the Emcee and Sally Bowles, respectively, in the current revival of “Cabaret.”
The two — each making their Broadway debuts — will take over for English actors Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin, who both earned Tony Award nominations for their parts. The newcomers will start Sept. 16 and play through the end of March.
“I feel so lucky to have this baton passed to Adam and I,” said Cravalho in an email from Indonesia. She noted that she saw the musical before her audition, pen and paper in hand. “The show feels so fresh and current.”
Lambert, who has just released his new dance-centric EP “Afters,” started his career in musical theater— he was in the ensemble of the first national tour of “Wicked” and later was in the show in Los Angeles for two years. “It sounds cliche, but this is literally a childhood dream,” he said by phone.
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