Producers of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in London have announced new star casting for the show.
From 29 May 2025, Bridgerton star Hannah Dodd will play Sally Bowles and Olivier nominee Rob Madge (My Son’s a Queer But What Can You Do?) will play The Emcee.
Cabaret is currently starring Emmy, Tony and Grammy award winner Billy Porter (Pose) as The Emcee, and double Olivier Award-nominee Marisha Wallace (Guys & Dolls, Dreamgirls) as Sally Bowles. They are appearing in the show until 24 May 2025.
Dodd and Madge will perform in the show until 20 September 2025. Between the two casts, from 26 to 28 May, Anne-Marie Wojna will play Sally Bowles and Damon Gould will play The Emcee.
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The current cast of Cabaret also includes Daniel Bowerbank as Clifford Bradshaw, Fenton Gray as Herr Schultz, Fred Haig as Ernst Ludwig and Jessica Kirton as Fraulein Kost/Fritzie.
The cast is completed by 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.
The prologue company are James Hastings, Dak Mashava, Nethra Menon, Oluwatosin Omotosho, Kristin Wei Wong, Rachel Benson, Ami Benton, Joseph Hardy, Andrew Linnie, Jack William Parry and Jazmyn Raikes
Winner of a record-breaking 7 Olivier Awards, Cabaret 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 Ferguson with lighting design by Isabella Byrd and sound design by Nick Lidster. 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.
Cabaret boasts an iconic score, with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a book by Joe Masteroff, based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood.
Songs include Willkommen, Don’t Tell Mama, Mein Herr, Maybe This Time, Money and the title number, Cabaret.
Cabaret is also playing on Broadway, at the Kit Kat Club at the August Wilson Theatre starring Orville Peck and Eva Noblezada.
Cabaret is now playing at the Kit Kat Club in London, booking to 28 March 2026.
Rob Madge’s current theatre projects include taking his hit show My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?) to New York this June. He is also starring in London concert West End Does: Magic of Animation – Heroes & Villains at Cadogan Hall on 4 May; and starring in the London Palladium panto this Christmas, playing the Diva of Dreams in Sleeping Beauty.
Last week, Rob and songwriter Pippa Cleary released a song from their show Regards to Broadway.
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📷 Main photo: Cabaret – Hannah Dodd and Rob Madge. Photo Gina Manning
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