5 dream roles that could win Broadway star Matt Doyle another Tony
Company back in 2020, but the pandemic had other plans, delaying the musical’s opening until late last year. Nevertheless, the tenacious cast and producers stuck it out, and Doyle walked with a Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical.But Broadway is a business, and despite five Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, producer Chris Harper announced the show would end its run on July 31.“It remains the honor of a lifetime to bring Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s masterpiece to Broadway in Marianne Elliott’s Tony Award-winning reimagined production,” said Harper in a statement. “It is a testament to the dedication of everyone who works on the production that we have withstood all the challenges that Broadway has faced over the last two years to share this show with our amazing audiences.”Harper said a North American tour is being planned.But where does that leave Doyle?
Sondheim wrote in Into the Woods, “Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor,” and a career as an actor working primarily in theater is precarious at best.
Still, Doyle has beaten the odds since making his Broadway debut as a replacement in the original production of Spring Awakening, going on to appear in four more productions, including The Book of Mormon and Elliott’s epically staged War Horse.Related: Inside Matt Doyle’s unapologetically gay, Tony-winning performance in ‘Company’“A lot of actors joke about the dreaded ‘man-boy’ phase where we’re aging out of those roles and playing a teenager,” Doyle told Queerty.
