Out actor Andrew Rannells will replace
Neil Patrick Harris in the Broadway production of Hedwig and the
Angry Inch.
Hedwig took home four Tony
Awards on Sunday, including Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actor
in a Musical for Harris.
(Related: Neil
Patrick Harris wins Tony; Flirts with Kevin Bacon, Sting as Hedwig.)
According to Entertainment
Weekly, Tony nominee Rannells (Book of Mormon), known
to television audiences for playing Elijah Krantz on HBO's Girls
and Bryan Collins on NBC's The New Normal, will take over
playing Hedwig when the show's limited run ends on August 17 and
Harris departs. Rannells, 35, has signed on for a limited eight-week
engagement starting August 20.
Hedwig, which had a long
off-Broadway run at New York City's Jane Street Theater and was later
turned into a movie in 2001 starring John Cameron Mitchell in the
title role, tells the story of a transgender rock musician's search
for “my other half.”
(Related: Hedwig
Broadway cast album, featuring Neil Patrick Harris, arrives July 1.)