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Eddie Redmayne reveals he treated his grandma, 99, to a karaoke version of his new West End show Cabaret in her care home but jokes she fell asleep during his performance
Eddie Redmayne has revealed he performed his new West End show Cabaret in a care home, during Friday’s appearance on The Graham Norton Show.
The actor, 39, treated his grandma to a production of the upcoming musical in the facility, as she wasn’t able to visit the Playhouse Theatre in London.
He explained: ‘She is nearly 100 and not able to come and see the show, so I went to her care home with the karaoke version of the musical and performed the whole thing for her – even Jessie’s [Buckley] parts.’
Adorable: Eddie Redmayne has revealed he performed his new West End show Cabaret in a care home, during Friday’s appearance on The Graham Norton Show
He said of his grandmother, who hasn’t been pictured: ‘She definitely dropped off – she said she was closing her eyes because she was enjoying it so much!’
Eddie – who has enjoyed success on stage and on the big screen – has admitted to having lots of fun with the new production.
Asked how the musical differs from the film and the previous stage production, he said: ‘They are both beautiful and extraordinary, but Jessie and I love the musical so decided to investigate it in a different way.
Throwback: In the original Broadway production and 1972 film adaptation Emcee was played by Joel Grey, now 89, who was married to Jo Wilder from 1958 to 1982 (pictured with Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles)
Heartwarming: The actor, 39, treated his grandma to a production of the upcoming musical in the facility, as she wasn’t able to visit the Playhouse Theatre in London
‘It’s properly immersive for the audience, you really feel like you are in the Kit Kat Club in Berlin.’
The Oscar winner previously revealed that the revival of the Kander and Ebb classic is different from the original.
He said: ‘The only point in us doing it would be if we could do something different from those other productions, something new.’
Emcee is a flamboyant figure in the production who acts as a ‘master of ceremonies’ and has been described as the ‘personification of sexual freedom’.
Masterpiece: The show will be designed by Tom Scutt, choreographed by Julia Cheng and directed by Rebecca Frecknall
In the original Broadway production and 1972 film adaptation Emcee was played by Joel Grey, now 89, who was married to Jo Wilder from 1958 to 1982.
Then in 1993, Alan Cumming radically reinterpreted the role of the role of Emcee. He married the artist Grant Shaffer in 2012.
The actor first performed the role at 19 in a student production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – and Eddie revealed he is nervous to return to London theatre after a 10 year break.
The show will be designed by Tom Scutt, choreographed by Julia Cheng and directed by Rebecca Frecknall.
The show – which charts the friendship between Sally, an American performer at the riotous Kit Kat, and a shy Brit, Brian – is set against the rise of the Nazis in 1930s Berlin and unflinchingly depicts antisemitism and persecution.
Frecknall said it was an important musical and that its revival comes ‘at a time when its themes and atmosphere feel so contemporary and resonant’.
Candid: The actor first performed the role at 19 in a student production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – and Eddie revealed he is nervous to return to London theatre after a 10 year break (pictured in 2019)
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