Somewhere tonight, a curtain goes up. Here is which seat to buy.
What a Moulin Rouge ticket really includes once the champagne is on it. Whether the Simon Cabaret transfer is worth the extra baht. Which Vegas revue holds up and which trades on the name. Reviews of the shows you can book, city by city.
Four rooms that decide what the rest of the night looks like.
A boulevard house in Paris, an island revue in Phuket, a Vegas variety bill and a Tokyo dance theatre. Different money, different dress code, all four worth the evening.
01The Paris oneMoulin Rouge Cabaret Show Ticket with ChampagneThe boulevard de Clichy house, champagne on the table and the can-can finale. Two hours, and the earlier sitting is the one with room to move.
02The island oneSimon Cabaret Show Admission TicketPatong’s long-running ladyboy revue, an hour of sequins and lip-sync. Tickets are cheap; the seat tier is where the money goes.
03The Vegas oneV – The Ultimate Variety Show at Planet Hollywood Resort and CasinoJugglers, acrobats and comics on one bill at Planet Hollywood, straight off the Strip. Seventy-five minutes and nobody outstays their welcome.
04The Tokyo oneJapanese Dance Cabaret Theater Asakusa-Kaguwa TicketAsakusa’s dance theatre, where the cabaret is Japanese and the choreography is the reason to go. An early show and an easy walk from the temple.
Six cities that keep a bill running all week long.
Paris keeps four grand houses on the same boulevard. Phuket and Pattaya built whole theatres around the ladyboy revue. Bangkok runs a dinner-and-show circuit, Vegas stacks variety bills along the Strip, and Berlin never really stopped doing Weimar.
Phuket, Pattaya or Bangkok: three islands of sequins, three different evenings.
Thailand has more cabaret seats than anywhere else on this site, and the three towns do not do the same night. What each one costs to walk into, and what you get for it.
Four grand rooms in Paris, and they are not interchangeable.
The Moulin Rouge sells the finale and the history. Paradis Latin is smaller and older, Crazy Horse is a lighting show with almost no costume, and La Nouvelle Eve still runs a proper dinner service. Pick the room first, then the sitting.
The seats that come with a table, and whether the food is worth sitting down for.
A dinner ticket doubles the price of most shows on this site. Sometimes it buys a three-course service and the best sightlines in the room; sometimes it buys a set menu you eat facing a wall. These are the ones that earn it.
- 1Moulin Rouge Cabaret Show Ticket with Champagneseats from $115
- 2Dinner Show at the Moulin Rougeseats from $300
- 3Seine Dinner Cruise, Eiffel Tower Access and Moulin Rouge Showseats from $483
A cabaret seat runs from the price of a drink to the price of a flight.
Every show on the site, grouped by what the cheapest ticket costs. The Asian revues sit at the bottom, the Paris dinner services at the top, and a lot of very good nights land in the middle.
Admission tickets to the Asian revues, Liverpool drag brunches and most of the Vegas variety bills.
- 1Japanese Dance Cabaret Theater Asakusa-Kaguwa Ticketseats from $49
- 2Calypso Cabaret Show with Thai Set Dinnerseats from $28
- 3V – The Ultimate Variety Show at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casinoseats from $37
Show-only seats in Paris and Berlin, the Pattaya VIP rows, and dinner at the smaller houses.
- 1Moulin Rouge Cabaret Show Ticket with Champagneseats from $115
- 2Crazy Horse Cabaret Showseats from $140
- 3Paradis Latin Cabaret Show with Optional Champagneseats from $106
Moulin Rouge dinner service, Paradis Latin with wine, and the Seine cruise packages that run half the evening.
- 1Dinner Show at the Moulin Rougeseats from $300
- 2Seine Dinner Cruise, Eiffel Tower Access and Moulin Rouge Showseats from $483
- 3Evening Sightseeing Tour and Moulin Rouge Showseats from $200
Four things a cabaret ticket does not tell you until you are standing at the door.
Shows sell one ticket and several very different evenings. Seat tier, dress code, whether dinner is a service or a tray, and how you get home afterwards are all decided at checkout, not at the theatre.
- 01Moulin Rouge Cabaret Show Ticket with ChampagneThe Paris houses run two sittings a night and price them differently. The early one is cheaper and calmer; the late one is the full room.
- 02Simon Cabaret Show Admission Ticket with TransferPatong theatres sit a long way from most hotels. The transfer version costs a few dollars more and removes the only hard part of the evening.
- 03Alcazar Cabaret Discounted Admission TicketSeat tiers are real here, not upselling. The front rows see the choreography; the back of a thousand-seat house sees a light show.
- 043-Course Dinner & Show at Paradis Latin CabaretA dinner ticket is a fixed service with a fixed start, usually ninety minutes before the curtain. Arrive late and you are eating through the overture.
Three kinds of show that get sold under the same word.
Cabaret covers a Thai revue with forty dancers, a burlesque act working one table at a time and a drag host with a microphone. The ticket rarely says which.
The ladyboy revue
Big stages, taped vocals and a cast of dozens working through country-by-country numbers: a Bollywood set, a Korean set, a Vegas set, a Thai classical finale. Simon in Phuket and Alcazar in Pattaya have run this format for decades. Shows are an hour, photographs with the cast afterwards cost extra, and the tip is expected rather than optional.
- 1Simon Cabaret: Phuket’s Ladyboy Glamour Show★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 146 reviews
- 2Bangkok Calypso Ladyboy Cabaret Live – Asiatique★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 27 reviews
- 3White Orchid Sunset Dinner Cruise Calypso Ladyboy Cabaret Show★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 10 reviews
Burlesque
Closer to a variety bill than a striptease, and the good rooms are small. Acts work solo, the comedy is part of the act, and the audience is close enough to be spoken to. Vegas plays it broad and theatrical at the casino resorts; Berlin and London keep it in basements and supper clubs where the table service matters as much as the stage.
- 1Zombie Burlesque at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 404 reviews
- 2Fantasy Burlesque Show at Luxor Hotel & Casino★★★★★★★★★★ · 354 reviews
- 3Showgirls of Burlesque Show★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 173 reviews
Drag
A host, a microphone and a running order that bends to the room. Brunches and dinner sittings dominate, which means the ticket usually includes food and a long afternoon rather than a curtain time. Expect audience participation, and expect the show to run late if the crowd is good.
- 1FunnyBoyz Liverpool – Drag Shows, Tributes, Brunches & Bar Crawls★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 540 reviews
- 2Drag Show with Dinner★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 414 reviews
- 3Comedy Drag Show Music Hall Tavern with Dinner★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 139 reviews
Paris, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, London, Rome: six cities, six very different rooms.
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