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Darren Criss in Talks to Join Broadway’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Darren Criss
( ©2010 Fox Broadcasting Co./
Rebecca Sanabria
Darren Criss
( ©2010 Fox Broadcasting Co./
Rebecca Sanabria

Glee star Darren Criss is in talks to assume the role of J. Pierrepont Finch in Broadway’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, playing at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre, according to published reports. Criss would take over the role from Daniel Radcliffe for a three week run, January 3-22.

Criss plays Blaine Anderson on the hit FOX series. His stage credits include co-writing and performing in A Very Potter Musical, and he also contributed material to Starship: The Musical, which recently played in Chicago.

Directed and choreographed by Rob Ashford, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, with a score by Frank Loesser and a book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, follows a wily window washer on his riotous rise up the corporate ladder.

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