DIRECT from his award nominated performance as Emcee, internationally celebrated singer/songwriter Will Young is to reprise his role in the touring production of Rufus Norris’ acclaimed production of Cabaret.
Following a successful West End run, the tour will open at New Wimbledon Theatre, where it runs from August 28 to August 31, 2013.
Based on the stories of Christopher Isherwood and the play by John Van Druten, this Kander and Ebb musical is a story of pre-war sexual decadence and eroticism set in 1930s Berlin, where young Sally Bowles is a singer at the Kit Kat Klub…..
Songs include Willkommen, Two Ladies, Sitting Pretty, If You Could See Her and, of course, the title song itself.
Since winning the inaugural series of Pop Idol in 2002, Will Young has been one of the UK’s most popular and successful music artists, and holds the record for the fastest selling debut single in British chart history. As well as a phenomenal career in music, he has acted alongside Dame Judi Dench in the film Mrs Henderson Presents and made his professional theatre debut in Noel Coward’s The Vortex at the Manchester Royal Exchange.
Rufus Norris is a multi-award winning theatre, opera and film director whose production of London Road at the National Theatre, where he is associate director, won the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical. His other theatre credits include Vernon God Little (Young Vic), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Broadway), Festen (West End and Broadway), The Country Girl (Apollo Theatre) and Afore Night Came (Young Vic, Evening Standard Award).
Broken, Norris’ debut film featuring Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, Rory Kinnear, and original music by Damon Albarn, opened the prestigious Critics’ Week at the Cannes film festival in 2012.
Choreography is by the Olivier award-winning Javier De Frutos, who formed The Javier De Frutos Dance Company in 1990. His work includes The Hypochondriac Bird and Affliction of Loneliness. Recently, he joined forces with Sadler’s Wells and The Pet Shop Boys to create a brand new dance work based on Hans Christian Andersen’s story, The Most Incredible Thing.
Since its Broadway premiere in 1966 and the renowned movie version with Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey, Cabaret has won a staggering number of stage and screen awards including 8 Oscars, 7 BAFTAs and 13 Tonys.
Presented by Bill Kenwright, Cabaret is designed by Katrina Lindsay.
Following its run at New Wimbledon Theatre, the tour will continue to Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Bradford, Eastbourne, Blackpool, Edinburgh, Dublin, Oxford, Tunbridge Wells, Hull, Wolverhampton and Brighton.