Final Cabaret Line-up: Maxwell Martin, Dreyfus & Hancock???
Date: 14 August 2006
An official announcement on casting for Bill Kenwright’s upcoming West End revival of
Cabaret is expected any day now, though it’s unlikely to hold many surprises for frequenters of The Goss or various internet discussion boards. The final line-up, we hear, will indeed feature
Anna Maxwell Martin as Sally Bowles,
Sheila Hancock as hard-bitten landlady Fraulein Schneider and
James Dreyfus as the Emcee. Dreyfus is best known for his camp portrayals in
Gimme Gimme Gimme and
The Thin Blue Line on screen and
The Producers on stage. However, in a recent interview with our sister title
Theatregoer, he said: “I’ve done the camp stuff for so long now that I’ve become bored to death with it. Sometimes it’s almost impossible for people to see past the camp.” Dreyfus has abandoned any hint of effeminacy in his current role as sober civil servant Alan Quine in Michael Frayn’s
Donkeys' Years, which he leaves on 2 September (See Today’s
News). Perhaps he’ll give us a new twist on the Emcee too? Directed by Rufus Norris,
Cabaret opens on 10 October 2006 (previews from 22 September) at the Lyric Theatre (See
News, 13 Jun 2006).
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