Cabaret Casting Rumor: Orville Peck & Eva Noblezada- Page 6

[east side story]

Posted: 4/1/25 at 3:58pm

Love what Peck is doing vocally.

[yyys]

Posted: 4/1/25 at 4:25pm

did Orville stage door as well? I'm assuming with mask on.

[DoctorBob]

Posted: 4/1/25 at 10:51pm

Saw it Tuesday evening. Orville Peck stood out as the strongest performance in the cast with a powerful stage presence, movement and surprisingly diverse vocal range. Solid all around. Ellen Harvey also shone as Fraulein Schneider, with a beautiful Act II solo that tenderly stopped the show. 

[sm33]

Posted: 4/1/25 at 11:13pm

Went to see this tonight mainly for Eva, but I gotta say, I was absolutely blown away by how good Orville Peck was as the Emcee. Can't believe this was only his second performance! His vocals were fine, but what really impressed me was the physicality he brought to the role - funny, creepy, menacing, all very convincingly. He's an imposing presence on the stage, which is clearly what he's supposed to be in the context of this production, and he seems very natural at it. 

Eva was predictably fantastic, showing a side of her I've not seen before, and I am sure she will be even better as her run goes on. Her Cabaret was beautiful and devastating. 

And I know this thread is about Orville and Eva, but I have to shout out Ellen Harvey. I was bummed to miss Bebe Neuwirth, but Ellen's Fraulein Schneider was heartbreaking. She had me crying in the (Kit Kat) club. 

The Broadway revival from 2014 was the very first show I saw on Broadway (my Sally was Emma Stone, she was great), and though I loved that production, and was turned off by the aesthetic of this one to the point where I put off seeing it til now, I am so glad we went. 

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 4/2/25 at 11:40pm

Orville Peck, Eva Noblezada, and Ellen Harvey are all doing excellent work and their performances in the show go a long way to mask some of the more frustrating directorial roadblocks Rebecca Frecknall lays in their path. The tempos are quicker, the off-puttingness less off-putting, and the vibe is a lot more inviting before it turns sour.

Updated On: 4/3/25 at 11:40 PM

[Kad]

Posted: 4/3/25 at 12:13am

Wow, what a difference a cast change and some time makes. When I saw this about a year ago, I found it to be a singularly frustrating theatregoing experience that seemed to actively distrust the material. So much of this production clicked into place for me with this cast- it seems that, without Fracknell's immediate overseeing, there has been a good deal of liberation from her frankly misguided conception.

Orville Peck is delivering a great performance- he goes from seductive and enticing to genuinely chilling. I still don't fully buy into this production's conception of the Emcee, going from Weimar underworld performer to Nazi mouthpiece, but Peck is able to make it work, without any of the empty animatronic performance art affectation of Eddie Redmayne. His vocals and physicality are excellent. He's much closer to Alan Cumming's take on the role- a sleazy, sexy good time who ends up faced with more than he bargained for (but unlike Mendes' irreverent but doomed Emcee, Fracknell's throws his lot in with the Third Reich, perhaps genuinely) . And for those wondering- "If You Could See Her" landed to a silent and perturbed audience, without so much as an audible giggle, and it's hard to imagine anybody laughing at how Peck plays it. Peck makes a terrific Broadway debut here and I hope he returns in the near future.

Eva is wonderful, a desperate and delusional Sally. The production seems to stack the deck against her at every turn, insisting on weird tempos and staging for her numbers, and it is to Eva's credit she is able to somehow carry these out and transcend them.

Ellen Harvey is an excellent Schneider- I preferred her even to Neuwirth. And shoutout to Calvin Leon Smith as Cliff, who is excellent in a role that seems to have been a continuous weakpoint of this production.

I still can't forgive this production its flaws- those flaws remain- but it feels rejuvenated and closer to what it needs to be than it ever did before.