Jonathan Groff Talks Return to FROZEN & Broadway's HAMILTON

In a new interview with Gold Derby, Jonathan Groff (Broadway's Spring Awakening, GLEE) discusses his new hit HBO series LOOKING, lending his voice to the new FROZEN short 'Frozen Fever,' and taking over a starring role in the Broadway bound musical Hamilton.

Groff, who once again voices hunky Kristoff in "Frozen Fever," reveals that composers Robert and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, the Oscar-winning team behind "Let It Go," have written "another song that you will not be able to get out of your brain" titled "Making Today a Perfect Day".

"I get to sing a bit in "Frozen Fever," which is really fun." Says Groff. "It's so funny when people ask if I am frustrated that I didn't get to sing more in the movie. I just feel lucky to be in it, period."

The actor recently replaced two-time Tony nominee Brian D'Arcy James in the role of King George in Lin Manuel-Miranda's new musical Hamilton. "Lin and [director] Tommy [Kail] asked if I would be willing to step in for Brian, and I said, "Yes!"", he shared. "I got to see the show five times in a row before I went in, and was blown away. I couldn't stop crying every time I saw it. It is just so groundbreaking and emotional. They are changing the name of the game."

He says of D'Arcy James, "Brian was a genius as the king, and I basically just stole all of his stuff. He is the sweetest man alive and could not have been more kind, generous and cool. I still saved the voicemail that he left me when he found out I was coming in for him. He is a classy dude."

Read the interview in full here

The world premiere production of Hamilton, inspired by the book "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow, with book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and directed by Thomas Kail opened February 17, 2015 at the Public Theater. The show is set to run through May 3rd at the Public Theater before it heads to Broadway's Richard Rodgers theater to begin previews on July 13th.

From the creative team behind the Tony Award-winning In The Heights comes a wildly inventive new musical about the scrappy young immigrant who forever changed America: AlexanderHamilton. Tony and Grammy Award winner Lin-Manuel Mirandawields his pen and takes the stage as the unlikely founding father determined to make his mark on a new nation as hungry and ambitious as he is. From bastard orphan to Washington's right hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country's first sex scandal to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy, Hamilton is an exploration of a political mastermind. George Washington,Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelong Hamilton friend and foe,Aaron Burr, all attend this revolutionary tale of America's fiery past told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we've become. Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail directs this new musical about taking your shot, speaking your mind, and turning the world upside down.

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