Collela, Anderson, Wyatt, Etc. Join High Fidelity Cast
By: BWW News Desk Jul. 27, 2006
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Additional casting has been announced for the Broadway production of Tom Kitt and Amanda Green's romantic musical comedy High Fidelity.
The show will be given its world-premiere production in the fall of 2006, with a pre-Broadway tryout starting September 26 at the Colonial Theatre in Boston (106 Boylston Street) and playing through October 22. It will then preview on Broadway in late November and open in early December at a theatre TBA.
Joining the previously-announced Will Chase (Aida, Miss Saigon) as romantically challenged record store owner Rob will be Jenn Collela (The Times They Are A-Changin' in San Francisco, Urban Cowboy) as his lost girlfriend Laura, Christian Anderson (Avenue Q, Rent) and Jay Klaitz (Manhattan Theatre Source's The Notebook) as comically eccentric music buffs Dick and Barry, as well as Katy Mixon (upcoming The Quiet film) as gal pal Liz, and Emily Swallow (Measure For Pleasure), Kirsten Wyatt (Urinetown, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown) and Anne Warren (Hairspray) as some of the women from Rob's past. The show will also feature Jon Patrick Walker, Justin Brill (All Shook Up), Andrew Call (Altar Boyz), Matt Caplan (Rent), Paul Castree, Rachel Stern and J.B. Wing.
Tony Award-winning director Walter Bobbie (Chicago) directs High Fidelity. Based on Nick Hornby's best-selling novel (and the hit 2000 Touchstone Pictures film it inspired), High Fidelity will be produced by Avenue Q team Jeffrey Seller, Robyn Goodman, and Kevin McCollum.
The show "follows the adventures of Rob, a record store owner who knows almost everything about pop music, but almost nothing about how to hang onto a girl. Rob's love life, already a broken record of heartache, falls off the charts completely when he gets dumped by Laura….but that just sets him up for one of the top 5 romantic comebacks ever," state press notes.According to the songwriters, it was "the wit, humor and humanity of Nick Hornby's characters and story," that attracted them to do a stage adaptation of High Fidelity, a tale that "naturally lends itself to musical treatment. It is a socially acute contemporary love story about people who are obsessed with, and define themselves by pop music and culture. The hero's life is a soundtrack and the big moments are songs."
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