Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells will reunite on Broadway this autumn in Gutenberg, where they originally performed together in The Book of Mormon.
The James Earl Jones Theatre on Broadway will host the Scott Brown-Anthony King musical The Musical! on Friday, September 15, with a scheduled opening night of Thursday, October 12. The 20-week engagement is carefully constrained and runs through January 28, 2024, on Sunday.
Gad stated in a statement, “I haven’t been on a Broadway stage in 12 years.” “And after 12 years, my co-star from the previous performance was the only one who would accept to share the stage with me. I’m happy Andrew Rannells agreed since I genuinely lacked the energy to put on a one-man show.
Rannells declared, “Josh Gad has finally persuaded me to agree to share the stage with him once more after years of obsessive stalking and numerous restraining orders. Since it felt good to be with my onstage missionary partner again, I made the decision that it would be best to just give in. It was also obvious that he would not go unless I responded positively.
Gutenberg! The Musical!, which has been dubbed “a full-throated celebration of the ancient, universal, and incredibly foolish urge to put on a show,” was first created at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in New York and participated in the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2005 and 2006. It then had a successful Off Broadway run in 2006 under the direction of Timbers.
Ambassador Theatre Group Productions, Patrick Catullo, Bad Robot Live, Seth A. Goldstein, Isaac Robert Hurwitz, Kristin Caskey, and Mike Isaacson are the producers of Gutenberg! The Musical on Broadway. Josh and Andrew are two of the funniest and most creative musical theatre performers currently active, according to Alex Timbers.
We’ve been talking about working together for a while, and the opportunity to do it on Gutenberg! is truly exciting because it offers a unique platform for showcasing their virtuosity, crazy irreverence, and sly wit. I can’t wait for this breathtaking tour de force, written by my brilliant Beetlejuice compatriots Scott Brown and Anthony King, to open on Broadway and watch these two dynamos rapidly switch between dozens and dozens of funny roles.
“We always said there’s no way we’d do our show about two dreamers hoping to go to Broadway ON Broadway unless Josh Gad, Andrew Rannells, and Alex Timbers did it with us,” Scott Brown and Anthony King remarked. They called our bluff, dammit. And we are ecstatic beyond words. It means the world to us that our twisted little valentine to musical theatre will get the opportunity to be seen by a Broadway audience.
