Perhaps Comfortable Ending received Finest Musical on the Tony Awards final month, and it’s getting a brand new lead actor after Labor Day. Andrew Barth Feldman will take over as Oliver beginning September 2.
Feldman — who performed the title position for a 12 months in one other Tony-winning musical, Pricey Evan Hansen — will assume the half originated by Darren Criss, who received the Lead Actor in a Musical Tony on June 8. Producers mentioned at present that Feldman’s run shall be a nine-week restricted engagement by November 1.
“Your entire inventive workforce is totally thrilled to welcome Andrew Barth Feldman to the solid of Perhaps Comfortable Ending because the robotic Oliver for this particular restricted engagement,” the present’s writers Will Aronson and Hue Park and director Michael Arden mentioned in an announcement. “Andrew is a outstanding expertise — emotionally sincere, musically gifted, and filled with coronary heart — and we are able to’t look ahead to audiences to expertise his recent and transferring tackle this position.”
RELATED: Darren Criss: The Deadline Q&A
Perhaps Comfortable Ending is the offbeat and fascinating story of Oliver and Claire, two outcasts close to the tip of their guarantee who uncover that even robots may be swept off their ft. It received six Tonys general final month, together with Finest E book for Aronson and Park and Finest Path for Arden.
Feldman performed the title character in Broadway‘s Pricey Evan Hansen for many of 2019 into early 2020. With stage credit additionally together with No Exhausting Emotions and Little Store of Horrors, he joins a seamless Perhaps Comfortable Ending solid that features Helen J Shen as co-lead Claire, together with Dez Duron and Marcus Choi.
“I’m so in love with this present and with Helen J Shen,” Feldman mentioned in an announcement. “I’ve been a plus-one on this Broadway journey from the start, and this good workforce and delightful firm have already develop into such an enormous a part of my life. That they belief me with this position, and are giving me the ridiculous present of sharing it with Helen, is an honor past phrases.”
Added Aronson, Park and Arden: “We fell in love with Andrew’s tackle the position of Oliver when he appeared because the reader in Helen J Shen’s preliminary audition tape, so to have him be a part of her onstage on the Belasco is certainly a particular deal with. … At its core, Perhaps Comfortable Ending is a narrative concerning the eager for connection and the complexities of being human (and Helperbot, and Vegetable) — common themes that transcend all backgrounds. We’re proud to proceed embracing infinite and thrilling potentialities in casting and to showcase this position as one which welcomes totally different interpretations and lived experiences.”
Perhaps Comfortable Ending opened November 12, 2024 at Broadway’s Belasco Theatre and can launch a nationwide tour in fall 2026.
