Orville Peck Will not play his signature mask when he debuts like emcee in Broadways ”Cabaret at Kit Kat Club ”later this month.
Alt-Country Crooner, who has never revealed his face publicly under his artist person, confirmed the news in an interview with New York Times On Monday.
“The mask is part of my expression personally as an artist and a very big personal part of me,” Peck said. “But I’m here to play this role and to get respect and integrity and hopefully a good performance for it. It’s not about me. I’m not trying to make it to The Orville Peck Show. ”
Since his debut album, 2019’s “Pony”, Peck has not seen without any form of facial coating, although the shape and size of it changes. But with “Cabaret”, where he will start together with Eva Noblezada as Sally Bowles, as everything changes.
“I wouldn’t necessarily have done it for just something,” Peck told The Times. “But this is probably my favorite music through the ages.”
He will replace Adam Lambert, who is currently leading Broadway’s “Cabaret” live, starting March 31 to July 20. Spoken to Amount In January after the announcement of his Broadway debut, Peck said it was always a dream of his playing the eccentric emcee.
“I grew up as an actor and did theater, and for many people this is a really sought after in musical theater because it is so open to interpretation and an incredible character,” he said.
According to the New York Times, who took a look at PECK during the rehearsal, his emcee seems to have been informed by his days coming up in the Canadian punk scene. He “looked less like a German fop who welcomed the curious to a nightclub in Berlin and more like the black flag front Henry Rollins who called the sweaty to a Mosh pit about 1984,” wrote Times’ Erik Piepenburg.
Read the Times’ full interview with Peck here.
