Caberet, at Savoy Theatre, Seven magazine review That was, however, almost six years ago, and Young, who is first seen poking his head out of the letter "O" of willkommen, has clearly learnt a great deal about the craft of acting in the intervening period. In that single moment, as the spotlight falls upon him in his grotesquely heavy make-up, with his hairpiece brilliantined down, he makes an unnervingly sinister apparition. Not long afterwards, he metamorphoses into a ticket inspector at a railway station welcoming Matt Rawle's amiable American author to Berlin just before the beginning of the war. "I wish you a pleasant stay in Germany and a happy New Year," Young says, with a satanic grin as he adds his final salutation. There have been quite a few Cabarets over the years - in addition, of course, to the film - but this is the most compelling I have ever seen. All too often, it has amounted to little more than a mournful tale about the rise of Nazi Germany with, rather clumsily grafted on, a few big, brassy numbers like The Money Song and Maybe This Time. Rufus Norris's production, however, somehow manages to make its incongruous pieces fit together perfectly. The cast is a box of delights: Michelle Ryan makes a poised and rather endearingly old-fashioned Sally Bowles, and Siân Phillips is on typically scene-stealing form as Fräulein Schneider, who makes the mistake of falling in love with a Jewish tradesman. She turns What Would You Do?, one of the show's lesser-known numbers, into a show-stopper of heart-rending intensity. Theatre is seldom, if ever, powered by quite so much emotional and, for that matter, sexual energy. There are, too, some extraordinary visual flourishes - I'll wager the final scene will haunt you long after you've left the theatre - but it is, ultimately, Young's triumph. He is no longer a showboating television star, but a grown-up actor who somehow manages to wield it all together. Much to my surprise, he puts me in mind of no lesser a personage than Laurence Oliver, whose portrayal of Archie Rice in The Entertainer, with his powder-puffed skin and dead eyes, may well have been the inspiration for Young's unnerving Emcee. Tomorrow does indeed belong to him. To Jan 19; www.atgtickets.com