Gay country star Orville Peck to make Broadway debut in ‘Cabaret’

Gay state euphony prima and mysterious masked vocalist Orville Peck is making his Broadway debut successful the Tony-nominated revival of “Cabaret,” producers announced Wednesday.

Starting March 31, the “Bronco” creator volition measurement into the relation of Emcee, the sexually fluid big of Berlin’s Kit Kat Klub, alongside two-time Tony nominee Eva Noblezada arsenic Sally Bowles.

The 2 volition header the critically acclaimed accumulation of the groundbreaking philharmonic astatine Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre for 16 weeks.

Based connected the 1951 play “I Am a Camera” by John Van Druten — which was successful crook adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 caller “Goodbye to Berlin” — “Cabaret astatine the Kit Kat Club” depicts beingness successful Berlin arsenic the Nazis emergence to powerfulness against a backdrop of the city’s hedonistic nightlife.

Peck, who’s taking implicit the iconic relation from glam rocker Adam Lambert, said playing Emcee has been his “dream role” since helium was a teenager.

“The quality of the quality allows for implicit state of idiosyncratic expression,” helium said Wednesday successful a property release. “It tin beryllium portrayed done specified a immense scope of emotions, perspectives, and show styles. That benignant of state is each actor’s dream.”

The South African-born instrumentalist near his hometown of Johannesburg arsenic a teen earlier surviving passim North America and the U.K. He trained arsenic an histrion astatine the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and worked successful the West End earlier relocating to the U.S. and pivoting to state music.

His vocation arsenic a state vocalist picked up steam successful 2019, soon aft the merchandise of his self-produced debut album, “Pony.” He has since collaborated with an awesome database of A-listers, including Elton John, Willie Nelson, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Shania Twain and Kylie Minogue.

One of the fewer openly cheery state musicians, 37-year-old Peck has been wide recognized arsenic a almighty advocator for LGBTQ rights. In 2024, helium received GLAAD’s prestigious Vito Russo Award, which is presented to an LGBTQ media nonrecreational who has made a “significant interaction successful advancing LGBTQ acceptance.”

Peck, who has ne'er been seen successful nationalist without his signature mask, didn’t corroborate whether helium volition yet amusement his look to the satellite arsenic Emcee.

“I volition accidental this,” helium told Vareity’s Marc Malkin. “People volition person to bargain a summons to find out.”