By Michael Buzzelli
On Monday, March 2026, the Tony-nominated actor, Eva Noblezada, graced the Greer Cabaret stage with an evening of off-kilter cabaret.
Noblezada sang beautiful songs and spun zany tales of her life on Broadway and London’s West End, where she began her career. The singer was accompanied by Rodney Bush (founding member of Tony & the Kiki) on the piano.
At twenty-nine, soon-to-be-thirty, Noblezada has had an illustrious career. In 2017, she was nominated for her first Tony, for the title role in “Miss Saigon.” In her role as Eurydice in “Hadestown,” she was nominated for her second Tony and won a Grammy.
Noblezada didn’t just do Broadway; she included an Amy Winehouse song and a Jefferson Airplane song.
Noblezada showcased her talents. She has a delightful ear for accents and can sing like no one else. The singer is adorable. She is full of joy and gratitude for her vocal vocation.
She was candid and vulnerable, which made it hard not to like her.
Noblezada spent a little bit too much time between songs, discussing her mental health, and branched out on several tangents, possibly a symptom of her confessed ADHD.
There was an unnecessary whole bit about a Guardian Angel, which was mostly used to set up songs, including a fanny pack with an alleged magic mushroom inside, so she could go way back to the 60s and do an amazing rendition of Jefferson Airplane’s “Go Ask Alice.”
Toward the end of the show, she told the audience a hilarious story about a five-year-old who peed on her during the final act of “Miss Saigon.”
If she had peppered in a few more songs. and kept the chatter down a notch, the evening would have been flawless.
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There is one more Trust Cabaret show in the 2025-2026 season. Broadway and TV star Cheyenne Jackson will perform on Monday, May 11. For tickets and additional information, click here.
I’m not sure what concert you saw, but I was at the first one. 7 songs in 90 minutes. The rest was her incessant babbling. Yes, she has a great voice, but really didn’t want to listen to her talk for over 60minutes. She stated at the beginning that her show is not scripted. Well, a script sure would have helped. I thought she was bad the first time she was here when she insulted the audience the whole evening. This was worse. Do the programmers from the Trust go to see these performers before they book them? If do, then it’s even worse than I thought.
We were at the second show. I did mention that she talked more than she performed. I am sorry your experience was so bad. I think if she talked less and sang more it could have been a wonderful show.