{"id":958586,"date":"2026-11-09T21:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/958586\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T21:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T21:00:10","slug":"tony-hale-jessie-mueller-chip-zien-to-lead-paddington-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/958586\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hale, Jessie Mueller, Chip Zien to Lead &#8216;Paddington&#8217; on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPaddington The Musical has announced its full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway_1\" data-tag=\"broadway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway<\/a> cast, including Veep\u2019s Tony Hale in his Broadway debut and several stage veterans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe cast will be led by Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller (Beautiful, Waitress) as Mrs. Brown and Broadway veteran Drew Gehling (Waitress) as Mr. Brown, who take Paddington into their home, with Arti Shah returning to the onstage role of Paddington, after originating the role in the West End, with James Hameed as Paddigton\u2019s voice and remote puppetry. Shah and Hameed won the Olivier for best actor in a musical. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLeslie Rodriguez Kritzer (The Fantasticks, Beetlejuice) will play local collector Millicent Clyde, with Chip Zien (Into the Woods Broadway cast) as shop owner Mr. Gruber. Hale, known for his roles in Veep and Arrested Development, will play the grumpy neighbor, Mr. Curry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCast members include Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba (Contact) as Mrs. Bird, J. Quinton Johnson (Hamilton) as Grant, Zonya Love (The Color Purple) as Tanya, Serena Parrish (Don\u2019t Say Good Luck) as Judy Brow and Kelvin Dukes (America\u2019s Got Talent) as Tony. The full cast will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe musical is set to start previews at Broadway\u2019s Al Hirschfeld Theatre March 30, 2027, ahead of an April 18 opening night. The show originated in London, where it won seven 2026 Olivier Awards, and has now been extended through June 2028. Another production is planned for Sydney Australia in September 2027 at the Capitol Theatre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe musical features music and lyrics by Tom Fletcher, a book by Olivier Award winner Jessica Swale and direction by Luke Sheppard. Sonia Friedman Productions, Studio Canal and Eliza Lumley Productions on behalf of Universal Music UK are producing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddington The Musical has announced its full Broadway cast, including Veep\u2019s Tony Hale in his Broadway debut and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,133412,447,134,39947],"class_list":["post-958586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-broadway","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}