“Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome…” Those opening words and its accompanying melody in John Kander and Fred Ebb’s seminal 1966 musical “Cabaret” promise entrance to the debauchery, the danger, the politics, and the sex at the heart of the Kit Kat Club and its slick, multilingual Emcee.
On March 29th, at the Center Stage Theater in Atlanta, a solo pianist played that melody, announcing the entrance of an icon.
Alan Cumming strode out from stage left in a pristine three-piece suit, evoking all of the gravitas and magnetism of his signature role, the radically bisexual reinvention of the Emcee, originated by Joel Grey.
From stage right came his cohort, his partner-in-crime: Ari Shapiro of NPR’s “All Things Considered” fame, in matching uniform.
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