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Saw “Cabaret” at the Guthrie last night. Phenomenal performances in an adaptation that chillingly echoed our currently uncertain times. A final reveal via the set design and lighting was a surprise gut punch. It stunned the entire audience into silence. 

This was not the nutty Cabaret my wife and I saw 20 years ago as a touring company revival of the original Tony winning Broadway musical. This was funny and bawdy and filled with innuendo and suggestive dance numbers. It was also tense and subtle in the first act. Then it was bold and matter of fact in the second. “Wake up!” It screamed. “Ignore the changing reality around you at your peril.”

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Nice to hear… used to also like theatre  de la Jeune lune when I was growing up; though I think they folded awhile back.

It is very nice. The current home of the Guthrie won all kinds of awards for its design and integration into the location next to the Mississippi river. There are three different performance spaces in the same building. Cabaret was on the thrust stage.

The set design cut it basically in half making the venue feel smaller and more intimate. A fact that made the reveal at the end even more impactful.

Never have I ever been to the “new” Guthrie, used to go get student rush tickets there back in high school 

Imagine the “new” space is quite nice.

Absolutely. There’s something magical about witnessing raw emotion unfold right in front of you no retakes, just truth in every note and gesture. ‘Maybe This Time’ gives me chills every single time.

Nothing hits like live theater. Being in the presence of a real person, as they pour their heart out in a song like “Maybe This Time” has no equal.

Wow, sounds like a truly powerful production. I love when theatre dares to hold up a mirror to society like that not just entertain, but unsettle, provoke, and awaken. It's incredible how a reinterpretation of a classic like Cabaret can feel more relevant than ever. That final reveal sounds haunting… I can only imagine the silence in the room.