premiere of Sam Hunter’s The Whale (Theatre Royal Bath), and the New Group’s production of Sweet Charity opposite Sutton Foster. Recently seen in the musical adaptation of Twelfth Night (The Public Theater), as The Monster in the London premiere of Young Frankenstein, the U.K. National Tour) Kerchak in Tarzan Jud Fry in Oklahoma! opposite Hugh Jackman (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Olivier Awards) and Javert in Les Misérables. Other Broadway credits include No Man’s Land (also with Berkeley Repertory Theatre) and Waiting for Godot, in repertory, opposite Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and Billy Crudup The Monster in Young Frankenstein (also the U.S. Most recently he appeared in the Tony Award–winning The Ferryman at the Jacobs. Shuler Hensley ( Hades ) can currently be seen in the Tony Award-nominated revival of The Music Man at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre. This cheeky, Greeky MUSE-ical earned a New York Times’ Critic’s Pick for its original Public Theater production in Central Park, with the New York Post cheering it’s “wise-cracking, heartfelt and emotionally rich.” And that’s the gospel truth! FEBRUARY 16 – MARCH 19, 2023 The show features a new book by Kwame Kwei-Armah (artistic director of London’s Young Vic) and Tony Award® winner Robert Horn (Tootsie), and direction by Obie Award-winning Lear deBessonet. Is love a possibility too? Oh, Hades, yes! The roof-raising score by Alan Menken and David Zippel features all the hits you love from the film, including the Oscar-nominated song “Go The Distance,” as well as “Zero to Hero” and “I Won’t Say (I’m in Love),” along with new songs written for the stage. HERCULES is the divinely funny story of an honest-to-Zeus hero on a quest to discover who he is and where he belongs. The inspired Disney animated film is now a mythical new musical adventure.

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