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Anthony Rapp to Join Idina Menzel and LaChanze in Broadway’s If/Then

Rapp will play an old college friend of Menzel’s character.

Bethany Rickwald

August 1, 2013

Broadway favorite Anthony Rapp has been announced to join the cast of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s If/Then starring Idina Menzel when it hits Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre in March 2014. This news will come as a relief to fans who have been anxiously following Rapp’s Twitter, which has featured tantalizing posts such as:

So this is that obnoxious tweet in which I say I will have some very exciting news to share very soon… #burstingandcannotwaittoshare

— Anthony Rapp (@albinokid) July 24, 2013

Cryptic tweet of the day: by next Thursday at the latest I’ll be able to share my big news. #chompingatthebit

— Anthony Rapp (@albinokid) July 25, 2013

Stay tuned…big announcement coming soon… #cryptic #tease #veryveryexcited

— Anthony Rapp (@albinokid) August 1, 2013

Michael Greif will join his Next to Normal collaborators Kitt and Yorkey as the show’s director.

If/Then follows a 40-year-old woman named Elizabeth (Menzel) who returns to New York City to give her life a fresh start. The romantic musical paints a picture of modern-day Manhattan and explores how “choice and chance collide.”

Rapp is best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in Jonathan Larson’s Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Rent. This production will reunite him with Menzel; the two first appeared together in the original cast of Rent. Additional casting will be announced shortly.

For more information and tickets to If/Then, click here.