NEWS: Matt Willis & Katie Hall to Star in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club

(c)Jay Brooks

It has been announced that West End star Katie Hall will play Sally Bowles and actor, presenter and Brit Award winner Matt Willis will play Emcee. The pair will join the production from the 26th January until the 23rd May 2026.

Matt Willis (who won’t be performing in the production on the following dates: Wednesday 18th March at 2.00pm and 7.30pm, Thursday 26th March at 7.30pm, Friday 27th March at 7.30pm and Saturday 28th March at 2.00pm and 7.30pm) is best known  as a founding member of the multi-platinum, chart-topping pop-rock band Busted, before establishing a career onstage playing the role of Fiyero in Wicked at the Apollo Victoria, Orin Scrivello in Little Shop of Horrors at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and Nick Hurley in Flashdance at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

Meanwhile, Katie Hall is known for her performances as Fantine in Les Misérables for the 40th Anniversary at the Sondheim Theatre, as well as its UK and Ireland tour and Les Misérables: The Arena Concert Spectacular world tour. Katie’s other theatre credits include Christine in The Phantom of the Opera’s national tour, as well as alternating the role in the West End at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Johanna in Sweeney Todd for English National Opera, starring alongside Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel, Laurey Williams in Oklahoma!, and Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, both at Grange Park Opera, and Maria in the national tour of West Side Story.

(c)Jay Brooks

They join Baker Mukasa as Clifford Bradshaw, Ruthie Henshall as Fraulein Schneider, Robert Hands as Herr Schultz, Lucas Koch as Ernst Ludwig and Jessica Kirton as Fraulein Kost/Fritzie, Joe Atkinson, Xavion Campbell-Brown, Olivia-Rose Deer, Anya Ferdinand, Danny Fogarty, Adrian Grove, Ela Lisondra, Hícaro Nicolai, Andy Rees, Alexandra Regan, Manu Sarswat, Tom Scanlon, Eva-Rose Tanaka, Marina Tavolieri and Lucy Young.

Meanwhile, it has also been announced the production be welcoming new members into their Prologue Company from 9th February 2026, with Isobel Bates, Jonathan Charles, Shanelle Clemenson, Zara Liu, Brian James O’Sullivan and Shiho Yokoyama joining the cast. They will join existing company members Rachel Benson, Ami Benton, Andrew Linnie, Dak Mashava and Jack William Parry who are continuing with the Prologue Company.

Currently booking in the West End until the 26th September 2026, this production is directed by Rebecca Frecknall with set and costume design by Tom Scutt and choreography by Julia Cheng. Musical supervision is by Jennifer Whyte and musical direction is by Ben van Tienen. Lighting design is 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.

The musical features the songs Wilkommen, Don’t Tell Mama, Mein Herr, Maybe This Time, Money as well as the title number. Cabaret was written by composer John Kander, lyricist Fred Ebb, and book writer Joe Masteroff.