amy lennox giving an extremely unhinged sally bowles
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Life is a Cabaret...
It is sometimes very interesting to look at different performances of the same number to see how different people and productions approached it.
For example, take the title song from the musical Cabaret. The dramatic situation at that point is, more or less: Sally Bowles (played variously here by Liza Minnelli, Natasha Richardson, and Amy Lennox) has just found out that she’s pregnant and doesn’t know who the father is. Her best friend, who is probably very gay, has volunteered to marry her, even though that’s not something that either of them wants. The Nazis are on the march, and their aggressions have become forward enough that it’s managed to penetrate the bubble surrounding the Kit Kat Club.
With Liza, the weight of all of that tends to creep in around the edges near the end of the song -- and then very sharply right at the very end of it -- but otherwise, her Sally doesn’t let any of that affect her performance. And Joel Grey as the emcee seems completely unaffected.
With Natasha Richardson’s Sally, the weight of everything she’s facing tends to creep in at the middle of the song, near the first middle bridge. But she pulls it together and gets through. Interestingly, Alan Cumming’s emcee is very obviously just barely holding it all together himself as he introduces Sally, which is an interesting relocation of the trauma of that scene.
And Amy Lennox’ Sally Bowles is not holding anything together at all. She’s basically singing her nervous breakdown -- and an interestingly angry one -- right there on stage for everyone to see. (I’m very curious about that production; I’ve never seen a Sally Bowles costumed quite like that.)
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stoked to get to see cabaret with fra fee (and amy lennox) TODAAAAY! some drawings of the promo pics to celebrate!
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Willkommen back!
Jessie Buckley + Eddie Redmayne made a return to Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London Thursday night to see the new Emcee + Sally Bowles, Fra Fee and Amy Lennox.
Eddie + Jessie were apparently lured back on stage to dance as part of the interval show. And there was another special guest… Goldie Hawn was in the audience and posed with the cast (including Eddie and Jessie) + creatives.
@ilona_jazz on Twitter: ”For a brief moment Cabaret at Kit Kat Club made me feel that tiny bit better. What a show. Brillant, touching, heartbreaking. Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne were in the audience and even did a little gig on stage. 💜✨”
@martconroy on Twitter: ”@garethpedwards got to dance on stage with Eddie Redmayne, while Goldie Hawn watched from the audience…CRAZY! Here he is proudly wearing his Cabaret hat.”
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Amy Lennox sings "Cabaret"
I clicked on this having misread it and thinking it was Annie Lennox it was referring to (it was not).
I also think I might have preferred this without the two minute intro by Eddie Redymane, but that's life.
However, I was NOT prepared for this performance, which is brutal and raw and heartbreaking and you can SEE Sally deterioriate as it progresses (and a pointed reminder that Sally was never supposed to be a great singer, that's sort of the point; she's a third rate singer and fourth rate dancer in a grotty night club and that's the HIGH point of her life) .
This is not a song, this is a staggeringly powerful and visceral performance, so be warned.
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OPENING NIGHT
The Gielgud Theatre, London, Saturday 6th April 2024
John Cassavetes’s film from 1977 is something of an acquired taste, but it makes sense that someone like Rufus Wainwright would be involved in a stage adaptation, having previously explored diva-ish behaviour in his opera, Prima Donna.
It’s the story of rehearsals for a Broadway play, The Second Woman, but the leading lady’s…
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Amy Lennox being wild performing Don't Tell Mama in Cabaret
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from amy lennox's final matinée performance as sally bowles
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"None of us choose the heads we’re born with. I can't seem to point mine in the direction I want it to go…”
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More Cringey Sally Bowles Comparisons :)
So, I posted about this a bit ago, but I feel like it's all the more real (for better or worse 😬). I really feel like Sally Bowles from Cabaret is one of the best characters that kinda speaks to who I am when it comes to relationships and what my issues are mentally in that regard lol! Just thinking of her songs and her story arc with Cliff... Like, I relate really deeply to "Mein Herr." Early when I'm talking to someone, I listen to it, and I can just hear myself saying these things to a man. That they shouldn't get their hopes up, that I'm a drifter and that I run when things are real. From Mein Herr, she starts falling for Cliff. She never shows it, she tries her best to seem aloof and uninterested. She tells Cliff that she can't have his baby and that she better move on. She sings "Maybe This Time." and this is a song I listen to all the time for that. I run away, I bottle, I come off aloof and uninterested. But quietly, I'm wishing that maybe this time it will be the one that fixes me: that makes me actually interested, that can see past my aloofness, that they'll unlock something in me that lets me progress. I've been listening a lot to Amy Lennox's "Cabaret" (or Jane Horrocks, because either of them are freaking BRILLIANT), and, especially after getting broken up with and how everything played out, I have started sobbing to that song. I can just see myself in every beat of it. That I power through these difficult moments and I hide it by trying to tell everyone that "life is a cabaret" and we're all just drifting through this party together. I'm Physically in that space recently. I'm sobbing, I'm breaking down, and yet I have no choice but to keep on with these performances. Rather than an abortion, I'll get on grinder and sleep with someone, but it's that same idea of self sabotage and feeling like I can only keep being myself if I stay true to who I was in "Mein Herr." I'm drinking, I'm smoking weed, I'm vaping/smoking cigarettes. I'm killing the pains with whatever means available. I feel like I truly am going like Elsie. I'm down this destructive path, and I'm recognizing it, but I don't see any other means. I can just feel these things with Sally so intensely. If I don't keep my destructive habits, if I don't keep the party going, if I don't sabotage myself until it's my fault instead of theirs, then I'll let myself get hurt again. I do what I know best (sleeping around, smoking, drowning myself in as much work as possible) until the pain's gone and until I can convince myself that this is the life I wanted. That I'm okay alone... It's kinda funny being able to see yourself mirrored in a really mentally unwell and shitty character lol I can somehow convince myself It's not that bad or that "I might just be aromantic," and then I go through crazy ass cycles like this...
10.11.23
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Interview: Amy Lennox - Spy for Spy
Interview: @misslenn - @SpyforSpyPlay
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Ahead of the run we’ve spoken with Amy Lennox to find out more about this unique production.
Spy for Spy – the world premiere of Kieron Barry’sinnovative new two hander play – will open starring Olive Gray (Halo) and Amy Lennox (Cabaret) at Riverside Studios this summer, playing the Hammersmith venue’s Studio 3 from Thursday 15 June to Sunday 2 July.
Spy for Spy is a romantic comedy with a difference; a drama performed like a playlist. The inner workings of a modern relationship are…
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Re-review: Cabaret, The Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse Theatre
Re-review: Cabaret, The Kit Kat Club at the Playhouse Theatre
Well, Callum Scott Howells is a bit good ain't he
Callum Scott Howells and Madeline Brewer do wonderful work leading the new cast of this still-striking Cabaret at The Kit Kat Club at London’s Playhouse Theatre
“That is what comes from too much pills and liquor”
I would have loved to see Fra Fee and Amy Lennox in Cabaret’s first lead cast change but the truth is, the presence of a certain someone in the supporting cast meant that I would be…
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Theatre Review Roundup: August 2022
I have been dreadfully remiss in updating my blog recently, so in an attempt to reduce my number of posts, here's a roundup of my August theatre trips. @hadestown and @kitkatclubldn were both truly extraordinary: absolutely go to see them!
Hadestown and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club are truly extraordinary, wonderfully artistic pieces of musical theatre
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if anyone sings the title number from cabaret too "pretty" they're just straight up wrong sorry. it should sound kind of ugly actually
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