Eddie Redmayne and more discuss John Kander and Joel Grey's Emcee | Cabaret

John Kander and Joel Grey today pick up their lifetime achievement award Tonys.
To celebrate, a group of West End Emcees including Eddie Redmayne, Fra Fee, Mason Alexander Park, Callum Scott Howells and Matthew Gent discussed the duo's iconic contributions to musical theatre.

[@KatMusic2009]

Why is there no footage of Eddie's performance anywhere, beyond brief snippets??

[@olimoring8951]

Sort of the vibe of the show, you're not really supposed to know much. Not sure if you know but he's in the 2021 cast recording on Spotify

[@belleetlabete1819]

I really wish I had gone to see Cabaret when Callum was playing Emcee. Doh!

[@calvinlau6938]

I watched him performing in January 2023. He was remarkable!

[@wren7916]

The real emcee that made it his own was Alan Cumming needs to be mentioned!

[@playinthedark3054]

Although I haven't seen Eddie Redmayne's emcee, I did see him perform on the Tonys. I know this show cold since I directed a production back in 2010. I could talk at length about the iconic performance of Alan Cummings in this role. He physicalized a power and a control over the entire proceedings inside the Kit Kat Club. For me, however, Redmayne is closer in line to Joel Gray's interpretation, which speaks to the grotesque and the dangerous, which this show can easily handle. It is set in a time of the grotesque and the dangerous. It's a world of total manipulation and I would assume that the recent revival exposes that manipulation.