Orville Peck to Finally Go Maskless on Broadway!

Orville Peck will bare it all in the Kit Kat Club.

In January, the country star was announced as Adam Lambert‘s replacement as the Emcee in Cabaret at the KitKat Club, leaving fans wondering if he would be bringing his signature mask to the Broadway stage. And Orville officially revealed he’ll be leaving the mask behind.

“The mask is part of my expression personally as an artist and a very big personal part of me,” the singer told The New York Times in a profile published March 17. “But I’m here to play this role and to bring respect and integrity and hopefully a good performance to it. It’s not about me. I’m not trying to make it the Orville Peck show.”

On playing the role maskless, Orville (real name Daniel Pitout) continued, “The irony is that if I put my mask on, I’m suddenly not anonymous anymore. The weird part is for me to be anonymous. I just take my mask off and walk around like normal and then no one knows who I am.”

The 37-year-old, who has kept his face covered since entering the spotlight in 2019, will begin his 16-week limited engagement in the role on March 31 alongside Eva Noblezada, who recently starred in Hadestown and The Great Gatsby.

But while the show will be his Broadway debut, he is no stranger to the musical theatre world. The Dead of Night singer studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and appeared on London’s West End several years ago.

The role has been a longtime dream of the Happy Trails singer, who told the times that when he was 14, he expressed his desire to play the role in his journal. And now, more than two decades later, he feels the same enthusiasm about having the opportunity to take on the role.

He stated, “It doesn’t give off the vibe of a traditional period drama, a relic from the past. Regardless of one’s political views, I believe no one can watch this production without recognizing that it bears an uncanny resemblance, if not an exact reflection, to the current state of affairs.

“It doesn’t feel like we’re doing a period piece, a throwback,” he said. “Regardless of whatever your politics lean, I don’t think anybody can come see the show and not agree that it is frighteningly similar, if not exactly what is happening at the moment.”

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