Met Gala 2024

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Eddie and his wife Hannah attended the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute Gala

Exhibition of “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” in New York on May 6, 2024.

Eddie wore a black wool coat with appliqués, mounted on sheer organza, with a soft

tulle skirt and black wool trousers, Hannah was in a matching sheer organza dress,

built over a tulle corset and a full underskirt, decorated with black silk crepe appliqués

tailored by British menswear designer Steve O Smith.

my edit from the video by E! Online on Facebook

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The 2024 Met Gala celebrates the Costume Institute’s new exhibition, “Sleeping Beauties: 

Reawakening Fashion.”The official dress code is “The Garden of Time.” The exhibit features 

approximately 250 rare items drawn from the Costume Institute’s permanent collection.

Spanning over 400 years of fashion history, including designs by Schiaparelli, Dior,

Givenchy, and more. Some garments that are too fragile to ever be worn again (such as

a Charles Frederick Worth ball gown from 1877) are also displayed via video animation,

light projection, AI, CGI, and other forms of sensory stimulation.

Watch the interview in the Vogue livestream below! (at 47:27)

Eddie said: “We’re wearing matching outfits!”

“This is by a gentleman called Steve O. Smith, a young designer. He’s had two collections.

He’s an extraordinary man and an extraordinary designer.” 

“I just saw you live,” Ashley Graham told him. “I was in the front row, and

I have to say your character, you embody that character!” 

“I hope I wasn’t too lascivious,” Eddie joked. Of the show, he said, “We’re having

the most amazing time. The show is in the round. When you come from 52nd Street,

you step into this whole world of the Weimar Republic. The audience is so electric.”

He praised his costar, Gayle Rankin, who also attended the event. 

When he was asked about his upcoming project, Eddie mentioned

The Day of the Jackal TV series, adding that he’s “playing an assassin

who wears quote debonaire suits — probably not tulle skirts!”

Cr.: Jenny Anderson Photography

Eddie Redmayne and his wife, Hannah Bagshawe, entrusted London-based

designer Steve O Smith with creating their looks.

Cr.: Jenny Anderson Photography

“I love line drawings and particularly charcoal… those great artists who could create

something extraordinary with so little – Matisse, Cy Twombly, or the romance of Seurat

charcoal drawings. Steve’s clothes merge fashion and art so uniquely and I adore that,”

“The mixture of classicism and whimsy is what Steve has created,

and the clothes are beautiful, playful, and easy to wear,”

/Eddie Redmayne for Vogue/

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Stunning Emcee photo for Cabaret on Broadway - Happy Birthday Eddie!

A stunning photo of Eddie as the Emcee from

the "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club in NYC" promo, 

Credit: @by.jackie__ on Instagram.

Happy New Year!

Happy Birthday, Eddie!

🎂🎉😊❤🤗😘

Eddie is a patron of the Motor Neurone Disease Association. 

His birthday is January 6, and Bespoke Redmayne is

organizing a fundraiser every year where we can honor

him with a donation to the charity in his name. 

You can support the cause and send a message here.

A recent video by the MND Association featuring Eddie's Thank You message.

Eddie reprises his Cabaret role on Broadway in 2024

via twitter.com/kitkatclubnyc

It's official! Eddie reprises his Olivier-winning performance

as the Emcee alongside Gayle Rankin as Sally Bowles. 

kitkatclubnyc

Broadway pre-sale access here

 For this thrilling production of Cabaret, the creative team will transform the August Wilson

Theatre into the Kit Kat Club with an in-the-round auditorium and sinfully dreamlike spaces

which guests will be invited to explore featuring pre-show entertainment, drinks, and dining. 

After purchasing tickets, guests will receive a “club entry time” to allow them to take in

the world of the club before the show starts.

 Eddie said: “It was whilst playing ‘The Emcee’ in a student production of Cabaret

over 25 years ago that my love for theater was properly ignited. It now feels

completely thrilling and a little surreal to be a part of Rebecca’s truly unique vision

of Masteroff, Kander, and Ebb’s brilliance as it arrives on Broadway, where the piece

has such a history. I am beyond excited to be doing it arm-in-arm with the remarkable 

Gayle Rankin and a truly stunning cast and team. I am hoping we will create

an experience for you quite unlike any other.” 

Previews for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club will begin on Monday, April 1, 2024.

The production will have decadent twin opening night gala celebrations starting

Saturday, April 20 which will continue into the following night, with

the official press opening on  Sunday, April 21.

Tickets for Cabaret will be placed on sale through Saturday, March  29, 2025,

with Redmayne and Rankin scheduled to play a limited engagement

through Saturday, August 31, 2024. Starting Monday, June 17, 2024,

Redmayne will not perform on Monday evenings and

Rankin will not perform at Wednesday matinees. 

Read more: broadwayworld.com

Quotes from last week's TheaterMania interview by David Gordon:

"I’ve been back to see every cast that’s taken over since I left. What Rebecca has crafted

is a piece that has a form, but also allows for absolute individuality to flourish within that.

Every Kit Kat member has their own personality, their own costume, their own vibrancy.

I honestly feel, at this point, thrilled to be part of this amazing legacy."

"You’re absolutely right that a lot of actors do not enjoy hearing themselves, but

I have listened to the album. I tend to dwell more on other people’s songs than my own,

because it takes me back to the memories of standing in the wings, waiting. Every night,

I would introduce Jessie Buckley to sing “Cabaret” and would go and peek through

the curtain to watch her deliver this roar of a song. Those are the memories that I take away,

and having that captured in the live recording is everything for me. When I listen to it,

it’s about going back to a wonderful place in my memory."

"It’s really important that it was a live recording because the Emcee, in some ways,

falls flat if he doesn’t have something to interact with, given that the audience is the other

character. The idea of canned laughter is sort of absurd. I love that there are moments in it

that people are laughing and the person listening, unless you’ve seen the show, has no idea

what’s going on."

"Physically, it was an extreme toll. I’m not going to lie. I’ve not done anything like this.

First thing in the morning, you’re in the shower checking that all the vocal pieces are there,

and you fear that they’re not. My struggle was always finishing the anarchy of “Two Ladies,”

because the Emcee would scream and be all over the place, and then I would have to find

the poise to come into this choral version of “Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” where I sing

the top vocal part over three of my own recorded voices.

I really struggled with that for the first couple of weeks. It was our brilliant choreographer,

Julia Cheng, who is a stunning dancer and a brilliant spirit, who helped me when I appealed

to her. One night, she took me from when I came off stage after “Two Ladies” and walked

my track with me to where I had to come on for “Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” giving me

breathing exercises and almost a meditation, because it was my anxiety that I was

struggling with. That was very helpful."

"You know, I’m thrilled that Broadway is going to get this production. I’m really thrilled

for Rebecca. She’s one of the great directors of our time. She’s stunning. And Tom and Julia

and the designers…I’m so excited to Broadway to hear their voices in some ways.

And Jordan, our associate director. These are brilliant voices and I feel lucky to have spotted

some of their work early in London, and for Broadway to get to be introduced to their work,

I’m just really excited."

Photo credit: Mason Poole (via)

Casting news: Ato Blankson-Wood, a Tony-nominated actor known for Slave Play,

has been cast as Cliff.