Is Adam Lambert the new king of queer nightlife?
Adam Lambert and Susanne Bartch hosted some of New York City's most iconic nightlife personalities at Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.
“What good is sitting alone in your room? Come here the music play …” Composers John Kander and Fred Ebb knew what they were talking about when they crafted the title song from the hit musical Cabaret. Who doesn’t love a party?
The musical, now in its fifth iteration on Broadway, is drawing crowds for its immersive production, transforming the August Wilson Theatre into Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, where pre-show entertainment harkens back to Weimer-era nightlife. Global sensation Adam Lambert now stars as the infamous Emcee alongside Auli’i Cravalho (Moana) as Sally Bowles and Calvin Leon Smith (Fat Ham). But if eight shows per week weren’t enough, Lambert and nightlife legend Susanne Bartsch hosted a group of partygoers for preshow and post-show revelry.
Guests included Ryan Burke, Zaldy Goco, Joey Arias, Deney Adam, Archie Goats, Lola Von Rox, Jon Zheng, Miss Cheng, Gage Boone, Bob Bottle, and Michael Shayan, along with cast members Adam Lambert, Marty Lauter, Christian Kidd, Karl Skyler Urban, and Loren Lester.
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Might this be the first chapter in Lambert’s Cabaret-to-club owner pipeline? Alan Cumming, who starred in the 1998 revival, famously turned his dressing room into Club Cumming when he returned to a revival of the revival in 2014 (because why not?), entertaining friends and guests throughout his time in the show, telling Variety, “Club Cumming started in my dressing room because I wanted the party to come to me.”
The soirees were so successful that he opened a proper club in the East Village in 2016. The postage stamp-size venue continues to draw a crowd for its roster of DJs and programming like drag king bingo, afternoon tea dances, and drink & draw sessions with live figure models.
As for Lambert, Bartch, and their posse of partiers? GayCities obtained exclusive photos of how it all went down:
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