Cabaret - West End Creative Team
Production Staff
Fred Ebb
Lyricist
As a writer, lyricist, composer and director, Fred Ebb made incalculable contributions to the New York theatrical community. Mr. Ebb is a Tony, Grammy, Emmy, Olivier and Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award winning recipient. Fred Ebb's first professional songwriting assignment came in 1953 when he and Phil Springer were hired by Columbia Records to write a song for Judy Garland called "Heartbroken." Mr. Ebb was introduced to composer John Kander in 1964 by music publisher Tommy Valando and became one of the most legendary songwriting teams in American history. The first successful collaboration was on the song "My Coloring ... read more
Christopher Isherwood
Source Material
(Based on stories)
(Based on stories)
John Kander
Composer
American composer John Kander (b. Kansas City, MO, March 18, 1927) is the musical partner of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb, who together created at least sixteen Broadway shows, Flora the Red Menace (1965), Cabaret (1966), Chicago (1975), and Curtains (2007) among them. They also contributed material to fourteen films and television specials over their forty-year association. Independently John Kander supplied the scores to many films, including Something For Everyone (1970), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Places in the Heart (1984), and Billy Bathgate (1991).
Joe Masteroff
Bookwriter
John Van Druten
Source Material
(Based on play)
(Based on play)
Lea Anderson
Choreographer
Sue Blane
Scenery/Costumes
Sam Mendes
Director
Sam Mendes began his theatre career after graduating from Cambridge in 1987, when he was hired as an assistant director at Chichester Festival Theatre. He made his professional directing debut in September 1987 with a double bill of Anton Chekhov's The Bear and The Proposal. In 1989, he became the inaugural director of the Minerva Theatre. That year, he took over a production of Dion Boucicault's London Assurance at Chichester and made his West End directing debut at the Aldwych Theatre with Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, starring Judi Dench. London Assurance subsequently transferred to the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
In 1990, Mendes ... read more
Paul Pyant
Lighting Designer
The Donmar Warehouse
Producer
Awards and Nominations
1994 Olivier Awards
Best Director of a Musical: Sam Mendes was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical Revival: John Kander was nominated but did not win.
Best Supporting Performance in a Musical: Sara Kestelman won.
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