Tony Award Winner Norbert Leo Butz to Star in Enron on Broadway

Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz has been cast in the central role of Jeffrey Skilling in the upcoming Broadway production of Lucy Prebble’s Enron. The acclaimed play will begin previews at the Broadhurst Theatre on April 8 and open on April 27, directed by Rupert Goold.

Inspired by real-life events and using music, dance and video, Enron explores one of the most infamous scandals in financial history, reviewing the tumultuous 1990s and casting a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world currently finds itself. Many of the play’s characters, including Skilling and as-yet uncast Kenneth Lay, are based on real-life former employees of the defunct energy company.

Commissioned by Headlong Theatre, Enron premiered in summer 2009 at the Minerva Theatre Chichester, then moved to a six-week run at the Royal Court Theatre before transferring to the West End’s Noel Coward Theatre in January.

Butz most recently appeared on Broadway in Speed–the-Plow and starred in the summer 2009 Seattle tryout of the new musical Catch Me If You Can. He received a Best Actor Tony Award for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and has appeared on Broadway in Is He Dead?, Wicked, Thou Shalt Not and Rent. Off-Broadway credits include Fifty Words, The Last Five Years, Buicks, Saved and Juno and the Paycock. Butz has a featured role in the new ABC-TV series The Deep End, which will debut on January 21.

Enron will feature scenic and costume design by Anthony Ward, lighting by Mark Henderson, music and sound by Adam Cork, video and projection by Jon Driscoll and movement by Scott Ambler.The play is being produced on Broadway by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Matthew Byam Shaw, Act Productions, Caro Newling for Neal St. Productions and the Shubert Organization.