Brian Hutchison and Michael Mulheren Join Valerie Harper in Looped

Brian Hutchison and Michael Mulheren will join Valerie Harper to complete the cast of the forthcoming Broadway production of Looped. Previews of Matthew Lombardo’s comedy will begin at the Lyceum Theatre on February 19, with opening night set for March 14, directed by Rob Ruggiero.

In Looped, Harper stars as Tallulah Bankhead, the larger-than life actress who is being called into a sound studio in 1965 to re-record (or "loop") one line of dialogue for what would be her last film, the dreadful Die, Die My Darling. Southern, but by no means a belle, Bankhead was known for her wild partying and convention-defying exploits that surpassed even today's celebrity bad girls. Given her inebriated state and inability to loop the line properly, what ensues is an uproarious showdown between an uptight film editor and the outrageous legend.

Hutchison has appeared in Broadway in Exit the King, The Invention of Love and Proof. Off-Broadway credits include From Up Here, Oh The Humanity, Mr. Marmalade, People Be Heard, Indoor/Outdoor, The Hiding Place, Theophilus North, Can't Let Go and She Stoops to Conquer.

Mulheren received a Tony nomination for the Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate and has appeared on Broadway in The Farnsworth Invention, Deuce, La Cage aux Folles, The Boy from Oz, Titanic and On the Waterfront. For Encores!, he has appeared in Damn Yankees, Do Re Mi, Li’l Abner and Of Thee I Sing. Off-Broadway credits include Captains Courageous, Floyd Collins and The Fantasticks.