And he is tipped to share the stage with Jessie Buckley, who will play Sally Bowles.
This column can reveal that a new production of Cabaret — starring the powerhouse duo of Redmayne and Buckley — is due to begin performances at the Playhouse Theatre, near the Embankment in London, in early November.
The show is centred on a seedy Berlin after-hours haunt called the Kit Kat Klub, in the last gasp of the Weimar Republic, as the Nazis ascend to power.
Joe Masteroff wove his story — about a naïve Englishman who goes to Berlin; a cabaret with a grotesque host; and the joint's star turn, the English Fraulein Sally Bowles — from Christopher Isherwood's The Berlin Stories and John Van Druten's play I Am A Camera.