NBC's The Playboy Club Starring Laura Benanti Sets Premiere Date

The series premiere of NBC's The Playboy Club, which stars Tony winner Laura Benanti, will air on September 19 at 10:00PM, EDT.

Set in the 1960s, the show follows a group of "bunnies" working at the famous Playboy club in Chicago. Benanti, who plays the established star of the club, told Broadway.com she thinks the series will make great television. "It was an incredible experience," she says of filming the pilot. "It’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever done, and I’m really proud of it. I think it’s really smart, interesting, dramatic and sexy…everything you’d want to see in a TV show." Benanti will sing two songs in the pilot episode, "Chicago" and "Sh-Boom."

A Tony winner for Gypsy, Benanti most recently appeared on Broadway in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, for which she received a Tony nomination. Her other Broadway credits include In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play, The Wedding Singer, Nine, The Sound of Music and Tony-nominated performances in Into the Woods and Swing!.

Click below to watch a preview of the upcoming series.