Cabaret: The New Broadway Cast Recording (1998 Broadway Revival)

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Product description CD Amazon.com The 1998 Broadway production of Cabaret is that rarest of revivals, one that feels like an utterly new show. Despite their incredibly familiarity, the songs of Kander and Ebb sound as lively and lascivious as ever, and the revised score augments the original with several tunes written specifically for the Oscar-winning 1972 film ("Mein Herr," "Maybe This Time"). In the central roles of deluded chanteuse Sally Bowles and the MC, respectively, Natasha Richardson and Alan Cumming have big pumps to fill; they successfully do so with distinctive flair, eschewing the ham-fisted tendencies of Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey to impart this complicated yet enthralling vision of 1930s Berlin with a fiercely individual spirit. --Kurt B. Reighley Review Natasha Richardson's modest Sally Bowles quite resembles originator Jill Haworth's, making Liza the anomaly. The new disc is splendid.... -- Entertainment Weekly Natasha Richardson, as Berlin nightclub singer Sally Bowles, has none of the emotional neediness Liza Minnelli came by so naturally. Alan Cumming makes a suitably decadent Emcee, but without the undertones of menace mustered by Joel Grey. -- People On CD, as on stage, individual performances are a mixed bag. Some may not enjoy Natasha Richardson's vibratoless shout (her character, Sally Bowles, isn't supposed to be talented), though as a stylist she comes through well in "Maybe This Time." Alan Cumming's sexual Emcee registers almost too brilliantly: His highly inflected performance may not wear well on repeated hearings. -- USA Today