I did it in my senior year of high school. When Apatow inherited the role from her predecessors back in May – alongside her virtuosic co-star, The Sandman’s Mason Alexander Park who plays the latest iteration of the mischievous Emcee – she knew it provided a unique opportunity: to belt out goosebump-inducing hits like “Mein Herr” and “Maybe This Time”, but also dance through the aisles and jump onto tables, immersing attendees completely in the raucous world of Jazz Age Berlin.īy Taylor Antrim, Chloe Schama, Liam Hess, Radhika Seth and Marley Marius I heard that you first did Cabaret in high school? It’s been worth it, though – the epic production, which transformed the Playhouse Theatre into the debauched Kit Kat Club in December 2021 has been dazzling audiences ever since with a slew of starry new leads (Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne, who were succeeded by the likes of Amy Lennox and Fra Fee, Madeline Brewer and Callum Scott Howells, and Aimee Lou Wood and John McCrea), and has won a record-breaking seven Olivier Awards, the most for any musical revival. “Ever since I’ve been doing the show, my voice has been completely broken, and my brain, too,” jokes Apatow.

(Fans of Bob Fosse’s 1972 big-screen adaptation of the original musical will recall Liza Minnelli in the same part, flashing her own jade-coloured manicure at her love interest while purring, “Divine decadence, darling.”) Except that is, for her bright emerald green nails, which glitter as she gestures at the camera – the only visual clue to the project that’s currently keeping her in London: an exuberant revival of Cabaret that has taken the West End by storm, in which she plays the flighty and tempestuous flapper Sally Bowles. When Maude Apatow logs onto Zoom, wearing an insouciantly slouchy sweatshirt and not a scrap of make-up, she looks exactly like Lexi Howard, the gentle and soft-spoken high schooler and playwright she embodies in Sam Levinson’s HBO juggernaut Euphoria.

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