To think Kit Kat Club would be ok for a tween?

[Bedroomdilemmas113]

sorry Cabaret the Musical at Kit Kat club! It won’t let me amend the title.

Have tried reading reviews but am no further forwards. Aimed at 13+ but so are some of her other favourite musicals and they weren’t inappropriate at all (for context, favourite ever was Moulin Rouge - the blurb makes the vibe sound as though it’s in line with this but this isn’t something I want to get wrong). She is 12.

I would be so grateful for honest perspectives - risqué dance routines etc absolutely fine - graphic discussions of sex are absolutely not fine. Please spell this out for me if you have seen it?

I totally agree but when I looked there were none of these showing (Oct 24).
We were originally booked for summer 2020 (cancelled for obvious reasons) and there was so much on then that wasn’t running in London, and I was so excited. Lots of these are now in London and to be honest the list I found for October was pretty depressing.

I enjoyed the Bodyguard!

I loved Cabaret, but I don’t think it’s a great choice for a 12 year old. My not normally shocked by anything mum was a bit shocked by it (!) so it’s probably not really suitable. I imagine it will run for a good while yet so wait and go once she’s a bit older!

Finished on Broadway in 2022 🥹

Totally missed them - they are on when we go! 🎉

Once upon a mattress? The great gatsby? Or go for a play instead. Our Town is opening soon. Great play and stars Jim Parsons so is bound to be brilliant!

Starlight Express is brill.

If you haven't seen Kiss Me Kate, it's a great show (one of my favourites, in fact!) and totally appropriate for a tween. Really fun; I think she'd enjoy it. The film's great, too!

It isn’t on on Broadway but I have been umming and aaahing over seeing it in London. I’m just not sure I ‘get it’.

How odd. I wouldn't have described it that way at all. Some "risqué " dance moves but not overtly sexually explicit and certainly nothing to worry an 18 year old .

I’ve just had a look, it’s in London until mid Sept and you’re right I think we would both really enjoy it. I’m going to see if we can squeeze it in over summer

You'll have a brilliant time, OP! And now I've got 'Brush Up Your Shakespeare' stuck in my head, LOL...

How about Chicago? It looks like it is on Broadway at the moment and it’s not nearly as explicit as Cabaret. I’d take my 13 year old unless they’d done something with the production!

Ah, I'd overlooked the fact you're looking for Broadway.
I know it's not a muscical, but have you seen The Play that Goes Wrong?
Highly recommended. Have seen it with tweens and grand-parents and all thought it was brilliant. It's very, very funny.

What about Sweeney Todd?

Not Broadway but if she likes studio Ghibli then Totoro is back in London next year. Just booked tickets.

I loved spirited away which O just saw last month.

Second Hadestown, I loved it.

This was my favourite show and movie when I was 9 or so and it hasn’t done me any harm!

Although I haven’t seen this particular production yet… but in principle Cabaret is fine for a 12 year old.

It's about the rise of the Nazis and at the end
The cast usually die in a concentration camp scene. It's not appropriate for children at all

We LOVE musicals and honestly plays don’t appeal at all.

It's nothing like the Liza Minnelli movie version. Much darker and sleazier
I've seen the current show twice, and loved it, but not sure I would take an under 16.
There is some sexually explicit content, of course.
But I'd be more concerned that the second half (in particular) is rather bleak and chilling. It's a good history lesson, for sure, but this is NOT a jolly musical and you would need to be sure that your child is robust enough to handle the content.

(If you want something that has great tunes, with no age issues, go to "Guys and Dolls" at The Bridge Theatre).

She will learn all about oral sex if she goes to that play which is not great for a 12 year old girl! I would be slightly aghast if I saw a child
that age there tbh. Go with a mate op

I don’t want to see it either after hearing the content 🤣

I was looking for something for all of us to watch, not wanting to take her because it was something I particularly fancied.

@Bedroomdilemmas113 oh don’t be put off as an adult! It’s a brilliant piece of art. But challenging, for sure.

Id say the whole atmosphere is very grown up - it's staged so that you ARE at the club, with dancers etc in the halls etc. it was incredible and we loved it, but absolutely not for children. There were no kids when we went, not even older teens

Let's see

Highly sexualised performances before, during and after the show

Nudity

Brief reference to paedophilia, where Sally Bowles dresses up as a child for 'Don't Tell Mamma'

References to Nazism, hatred of Jews, sex and abortion

Risqué actors showing up before, during and after the show

Telephone tables getting suggestive messages during the show

Yeah, no

An older teen, perhaps, but this a full on immersive performance, where you're brought in via the basement Schnapps Bar, watch the 'rehearsals' and preparations for the show, possibly spoken to by half naked actors and you watch a show about pretty adult themes