Cara Delevingne To Make Stage Debut as Sally Bowles In The West End Production Cabaret Alongside Luke Treadaway As The Emcee

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Cara Delevingne | Photo: Emilio Madrid

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Alex Mecklosky
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A New The Toast of Mayfair! Beginning March 11th 2024, the role of Sally Bowles will be played by actress and model Cara Delevingne in the reimagined West End Production of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club through June 1st 2024. The role of the Emcee will be played by Olivier Award-winning actor Luke Treadaway. 

“There are no words to explain the excitement I have to return home to make my stage debut in such an iconic role. I am so inspired by the brilliant actors who have played Sally in past productions around the world and in this one in the West End. I cannot wait to be a part of this brilliant cast and production.” said Cara Delevingne 

Cara Delevingne is one of the most recognisable faces in the world, most known for her work across the entertainment and fashion industry.  Her film credits include joe wright’s anna karenina, paper towns, dc comics’ suicide squad, luc besson’s valerian and the city of a thousand planets, the face of an angel, her smell, life in a year, and tell it like a woman. In television, delevingne was a part of the sag nominated cast of Only Murders In The Building.  She has also been seen on television in Amazon’s Carnival Row, Planet Sex and most recently in Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story: delicate. A talented singer and drummer, Cara's Pharrell Williams-produced song, “I Feel Everything” was featured on the soundtrack of her film Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets.  Delevingne has used her platform to speak out on important issues, becoming an influential voice for the lgbtqia+ community, as well as an advocate for mental health issues, women’s rights, and environmental conservation.

Luke Treadaway won the Olivier Award for Best Leading Actor for his performance of Christopher in the National Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. He was also nominated for Best Actor at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for his portrayal of the role. In New York he appeared in Hamlet and Oresteia at the Park Avenue Armory. 

Cara will not be performing on the following dates - Wednesday 13 March (matinee), Thursday 21 March (evening), Wednesday 27 March (matinee), Thursday 4 April (evening), Tuesday 9 April (evening) Wednesday 10 April (matinee and evening), Thursday 11 April (evening), Friday 12 April (evening), Thursday 18 April (evening), Wednesday 24 April (matinee), Thursday 2 May (evening), Monday 6 May (evening), Tuesday 7 May (evening), Wednesday 8 May (matinee and evening), Thursday 16 May (evening), Friday 17 May (evening), Saturday 18 May (matinee and evening), Wednesday 22 May (matinee) and Thursday 30 May (evening).

They join Michael Ahomka-Lindsay as Clifford Bradshaw, Beverley Klein as Fraulein Schneider and Teddy Kempner as Herr Schultz. Nic Myers plays the role of Sally Bowles once a week.

Completing the company are Wilf Scolding as Ernst Ludwig, Jessica Kirton as Fraulein Kost/Fritzie, Liv Alexander as Texas, Natalie Chua as Frenchie, Taite-Elliot Drew as Hans, Damon Gould as Victor, El Haq Latief as Helga, and Travis Ross as Bobby, joining Laura Delany as Rosie, Grant Neal as Herman/Max and Hicaro Nicolai as Lulu. The cast is completed by Rebecca Lisewski, Ela Lisondra, Nic Myers, Andy Rees, Toby Turpin and Patrick Wilden.

The prologue company are Rachel Benson, Ami Benton, Onyemachi Ejimofor, Joseph Hardy, Liz Kamille, Andrew Linnie, Aine McLoughlin, Jack William Parry, Jazmyn Raikes, Oliver Stockley and Ena Yamaguchi. 

This unique production of CABARET opened in December 2021 to critical and audience acclaim, widely praised as the ultimate theatrical experience. In April 2022 the production won a record-breaking seven Olivier Awards, the most for any musical revival in Olivier history. The production has also won three prestigious Critics Circle Awards as well as the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Design for designer Tom Scutt. The Broadway production of CABARET starring Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin will open at the KIT KAT CLUB at the August Wilson Theatre in April.

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Alex Mecklosky

As a native New Yorker, Alex has always loved everything involving theatre. With a degree in Theatre and New Media from Marymount Manhattan College, Alex realized that, since he was not talented enough to be on Broadway, the next best thing would be to write about it!