NEWS: London Production of Cabaret Announces New Prologue Cast

Producers of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London has announced new members of the Prologue Company, who entertain the audiences before the show begins.

Joining the company from the 3rd February will be: James Hastings, Dak Mashava, Nethra Menon, Oluwatosin Omotosho and Kristin Wei Wong. They join existing company members Rachel Benson, Ami Benton, Joseph Hardy, Andrew Linnie, Jack William Parry and Jazmyn Raikes, who are continuing within the Prologue Company.

Meanwhile, the cast for the show is completed by Emmy, Tony and Grammy award winner Billy Porter as The Emcee and double Olivier award nominee Marisha Wallace as Sally Bowles, with Daniel Bowerbank as Clifford Bradshaw, Vivien Parry as Fraulein Schneider, Fenton Gray as Herr Schultz, Fred Haig as Ernst Ludwig and Jessica Kirton as Fraulein Kost/Fritzie, Xenoa Campbell-Ledgister, Sam Darius, Damon Gould Adrian Grove, El Haq Latief, Justin-Lee Jones, Ela Lisondra, Hícaro Nicolai, Andy Rees Alexandra Regan, Marina Tavolieri, Ben Simon Wilson, Anne-Marie Wojna, Patrick Wilden and Lucy Young. Anne-Marie Wojna plays the role of Sally Bowles once a week.

Having opened in late 2021, Rebecca Frecknall’s production of the musical recently celebrated 1000 performances in London. The Broadway production opened in April 2024 and currently stars Adam Lambert & Auli’i Cravalho.

Cabaret features the songs Wilkommen, Don’t Tell Mama, Mein Herr, Maybe This Time, Money as well as the title number.  It has music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Joe Masteroff. The musical is based on the  play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood.

The creative team behind this production includes:  set and costume design is by Tom Scutt with choreography by Julia Cheng. Musical supervision is by Jennifer Whyte and musical direction is by Ben van Tienen with lighting design by Isabella Byrd, sound design by Nick Lidster, Wigs and Hair design by Sam Cox and Make-Up design by Guy Common. The casting director is Stuart Burt and the original associate director and prologue director is Jordan Fein. The prologue composer and musical director is Angus MacRae.