Wilkommen! Eva Noblezada and Reeve Carney! – Opening Night at the West End’s Kit Kat Club Cabaret Approaches

Time for a scroll down memory lane, perhaps?

The month has come where Eva Noblezada and Reeve Carney will return to the London’s West End stage, bringing new life to Emcee and Sally Bowles of Cabaret, and the red carpet has begun rolling out from now, with the release of some, beyond dynamic, rehearsal photos.

What is known to be something of a heavy and controversial piece of theatre reads now with a new kind of warmth as a homecoming in more ways than one.

It wasn’t long ago that the city was home to the two, when they started this year reuniting with the roles that brought them together.

Singing again the sad song of Orpheus and Eurydice with the Original Broadway Cast of Hadestown on the West End was a trip they left, Noblezada with a ring on her finger and Carney officially confirmed ‘the man who’s gonna marry [her]’.

The context of their return also cannot be discussed without noting Noblezada’s place having just completed a short run as Sally Bowles on Broadway. All in all, this next step seem meant to be.

The couple will be gracing the Kit Kat Club stage from September 22^nd, set to take their final bows on January 24^th 2026. They join an endlessly impressive cast at the transformed Playhouse Theatre since its opening in 2021 and will continue, as of now, until May 2026.

This stage is no stranger to Netflix stars, all of which earned that total in a context of their own light controversy that flows nicely into this one of a kind theatre experience – whether that be the sex-positivity of the hormone-fuelled teens of Moordale Secondary, the romanticised murder or the mental cages locked up in bullying and othering.

Madeline Brewer, who you may recognise from her stellar performance in the series finale of YOU earlier this year, essential to the clever, clean closure that we all needed in one way or another, saw her Kit Kat Club residency from October 3^rd through to January 28^th 2023.

Aimee Lou Wood played the leading lady from February 13^th to May 27^th 2023, a beautiful, heartfelt performance packed with themes of sexuality, anxiety and assault on her back in Sex Education.

Rhea Norwood’s clear prowess for beautiful, layered complexity in performance, introduced in the one-and-only Heartstopper, inevitably blossomed in the shoes of Sally Bowles from June 3^rd to September 21^st 2024.

A pleasant surprise on this star-studded list, the excellent Katherine Langford, practised as she is in challenging her audiences with boundary-breaking portrayals like that of Hannah in 13 Reasons Why, took on the role from September 23^rd to January 25^th of this year.

Maude Apatow stepped onto the Kit Kat Club May 29^th 2023, off a strong foundation in portrayal of the raw and the messy as a cast member of the HBO smash – Euphoria – as Lexi Howard.

Noblezada will take over from the incredible Hannah Dodd who, after launching quietly her bright leading lady potential in Bridgertonstepped into the role from May 29^th to September 20^th 2025, and saw the production celebrate 2000 global performances.

The experience of seeing big names in on-screen entertainment make the move to stage off the back of their success just emphasises the respect that should be intrinsically linked to the theatre world. Apply that to the contextual power of a show so long beloved and so loudly profound and we have a declaration of ‘we will be okay’.