Video: Come to the CABARET with New Stars Eva Noblezada and Orville Peck

Hi everyone, my name is Eva Nabilzada

And I'm Orville Peck. And you can come see us at the Kick Cat Club and Cabaret starting March 31st

Welcome! Yehaw! I'm losing my mind. I mean, truly, I have to pinch myself all the time

You know, we're in the thick of rehearsals, so obviously we're really immersed in this show and the story

but I am definitely taking moments to look around and kind of be in disbelief

Getting to make my Broadway debut in my dream role, I mean, it's kind of crazy

So what's it like? I mean, you have a history with Cabaret. You've done the show before, right? I have, yeah. Yeah, I was a Kit Kat boy, and I played the gorilla

And so it's very full circle. I mean, actually, you know, if you know the show, that number with the gorilla

It's really, it doesn't escape me that it's very full circle for me

And so, yeah, I love this show. I think it is genuinely one of the most cleverly and heartfelt constructed pieces of theater

with each of the characters, what they represent, what they go through, their differences, their similarities

It's a perfect show, in my opinion, really. What made you say yes, I want to play Sally

Well, I was just grateful that they gave me an audition because I've always wanted to be Sally

It's been a dream role of mine since I was a little girl

So, yeah, I'm very grateful that they came to the audition and that thankfully it went well

And I'm just excited to keep telling Orville this. I want to get in the full get up and get the makeup on and get the wig on

and just start putting my body on the stage and really inviting Sally into my space and my bones

so I can really start running with her. But you know it also like I never gone into a show a long show before other than Les Mez where people are actively playing the role So there a level of I love that you keep using word integrity and I just think that brilliant for the show and where we are right now but there a level of integrity that I want

to uphold with making sure that I'm honoring the material and also honoring myself and how I want to

put my spin on Sally, and I don't really know what that means and adjectives yet, but I know how that

feels and so it's been a great process and this team is so open to collaboration and that's i mean

i get to work with this genius and he is a light in the room and also like completely not himself

which is what anyone wants to work with so which is it's perfect where's your mc right now

talk about rehearsals yeah i mean listen similarly we're in the thick of it it's it's it's such a hard

to sort of put into words when we're at this stage because I think this show particularly

until we're up there with the audience. I mean, it's such an immersive production, so we're missing

like a huge element, which is the audience in there with us too, you know, and so, but I think for me

I'm really trying to bring, you know, listen, my, my emce makes decisions and choices that I

would probably never make as Orval, but I'm trying to find my own

sense of humanity in those decisions and what would bring someone to make those decisions, I suppose

And so I'm really focused on, I think, that side of things at the moment, just to bring a real

humanity to these characters because these are all, you know, they're all written the way they're

written for a reason. They all come with different backgrounds, perspectives, and they're sort of unified in crisis

And it's something very relatable. I mean, when crisis hits, we all go to our different

different perspectives, you know? Yeah. That makes sense. Anybody who knows me knows that Cander never, my favorites

I think John Cander writes the most incredible music, and I think Fred Ebb, it was the

most brilliant lyricist. What it like living in the world of their songs at the moment It beautiful It unreal and it every song gets stuck in your head for different reasons And it gets stuck in your body in different places depending on like how it makes you feel

I can't tell you the joy and the gratitude I feel singing those iconic Sally songs

It's out of this world and it makes me feel even more inspired

to make the most out of every second, whether it be exhausted or not

in this world and in this role. So it's very special. Yeah, I mean, I think that's the perfect word

It's like, you know, it's iconic. And in this real sense of the word that I mean

when you hear the starting notes of almost all the songs in the show

if you're a theater fan, you know those, you know, the start of Cabaret, the start of Vilkomen, like

and so getting to be a part of that on Broadway, I mean, it really is such a, it's like such a

a gift. It's so exciting and thrilling. And, you know, I think we're both trying to come to this

with, yes, of course, our own takes and our own spin on these characters, these iconic characters

but we are also equally, I think, both people who are very conscious of the respect that needs

to be brought to this iconic show. Let's talk about the relevancy of this show. It was relevant

in 1966 when they first wrote this and every generation after that

Talk about with this production, the relevancy of right now. Well, it's in our faces

It's on the news. It's in our neighborhoods. It's on social media

It's everywhere of how unfortunately paralleled the themes of this show are with the rise of fascism in Berlin and Germany

And also right here in the United States and also just in the world

And it's terrifying. And I don't really understand how we've come to this

I think one of my main challenges right now is to not feel completely helpless

I know that I'm playing a character, but I'm playing a character who is based off somebody who was actually alive

during those times in Berlin So I can only imagine what she I can only imagine what she had been going through at that time in that city It makes me feel really disturbed

I just feel overall disturbed. And thankfully, we're in a group of people who not only feel the same way, but, you know, community is everything

And I think one of the great things about tackling that issue with the reality of the show and how it is

mirror to today in a way with the community that we have in this company

is we need that. We need that family sense. We need that knowing that we have each other's backs

to do this show every night because it is a musical. It's a beautiful musical

It's a show. It's also a very deep show where people come in and they feel affected

And I even know people who don't want to see the show because they don't want to feel a certain way

with the themes of the show. So it's, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think Eva hit the nail on the head

It's the elephant in the room, I think, for all of us in rehearsal

and the existing cast, too. I mean, we're in real time watching people's rights being threatened

and even taken away right in front of them. And, you know, that is what these characters were experiencing in 1930s, Berlin

I mean, it's verbatim. I think that in one way, I think that really helps us understand these characters and bring a real empathy and a compassion to these characters because we are simultaneously experiencing the same thing on some level

And I think it also, it makes it hard, you know, I think it makes it feel like there's a responsibility that we need to bring to the show

And I think we're both eager to do that. And yeah, I mean, the Kit Kat Club represents joy, freedom, lightness, diversity

I think it represents all those things. And I think as an audience, you can come. And for most of the first act, experience that with us

And then you watch it change and you watch us change. And I think the audience changes too

So it's a beautiful piece of theater