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Beau Bridges to Join Broadway’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Beau Bridges
Beau Bridges

Beau Bridges will assume the role of J.B. Biggley in Broadway’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, playing at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on January 3. He replaces Tony Award winner John Laroquette, who will play his final performance on January 1.

Bridges’ stage credits include Where’s Daddy? and Who’s Who in Hell on Broadway as well as the original production of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine at the Mark Taper Forum and Jane Anderson’s Looking for Normal.

In addition, he has won Awards for HBO’s The Second Civil War, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom and Without Warning: The James Brady Story. Among Bridges’ many films are The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Other Side of the Mountain, and Norma Rae, as well as the forthcoming The Descendants.

Bridges will play the role opposite the previously announced Darren Criss, who will join the show as J. Pierrepont Finch for a limited engagement January 3-22 and Nick Jonas, who, as previously reported will play the role January 24- July 1.

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.

In addition to Laroquette, the show currently stars Daniel Radcliffe as J. Pierrepont Finch, Rose Hemingway as Rosemary Pilkington, Tammy Blanchard as Hedy La Rue, Christopher J. Hanke as Bud Frump, Rob Bartlett as Twimble/Wally Womper, Mary Faber as Smitty, Ellen Harvey as Miss Jones, Michael Park as Bert Bratt, and Anderson Cooper, making his Broadway debut, as the voice of the narrator.

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