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Orville Peck to Take Mask Off as Emcee in Broadway’s ‘Cabaret’: ‘I’m Here to Play This Role … It’s Not About Me’


Orville Peck won't be sporting his signature mask when he debuts as Emcee in Broadway's "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club" later this month.

Orville Peck won’t be sporting his signature mask when he debuts as Emcee in Broadway’s “ Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club” later this month. According to the New York Times, who caught a peek at Peck during rehearsal, his Emcee appears to have been informed by his days coming up in the Canadian punk scene. He “looked less like a German fop welcoming the curious to a Berlin nightclub and more like the Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins summoning the sweaty to a mosh pit circa 1984,” the Times’ Erik Piepenburg wrote.

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