Ben Platt stars in Midnight at the Never Get cabaret — SkimNews
SkimNews Take
The 1960s protest-versus-assimilation tension staged in an intimate cabaret setting suggests that binaries which once organized queer life still haunt present-day theatrical framing.
Get the Culture newsletter
Daily culture — film, music, books, the trends and ideas worth your attention. Free.
- Ben Platt stars as bar-singer Trevor Copeland in the Menier Chocolate Factory's 'Midnight at the Never Get,' a cabaret-musical set in 1960s New York and built around American Songbook-style music.
Why it matters: Platt, a Tony/Emmy/Grammy winner, takes on a role that threads queer identity through a specific historical pressure point — a 1960s underground gay club forced to choose between protest and assimilation — giving the cabaret format a politically loaded spine rather than a purely nostalgic one. Cromer's intimate staging and Milne's anchoring turn at the piano reportedly do the heavy lifting, with reviewers noting the production's gut-punch ending would land even harder with a trim.
Ask SkimNews
