Anna Chlumsky & Douglas Sills Will Reunite with Renee Fleming for Broadway’s Living on Love

Bravi tutti! Current You Can’t Take It With You star Anna Chlumsky and Douglas Sills will return to Broadway in Living on Love. They join the previously announced opera star Renee Fleming; the three had appeared in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production together in summer 2014. Directed by Kathleen Marshall, the Joe DiPietro comedy will begin performances at the Longacre Theatre on April 1. Opening night is set for April 20.

Casting for the role of Robert Samson will be announced later. Broadway alum and screen star Justin Long played the role in the Williamstown mounting.

Chlumsky received Emmy nominations in 2013 and 2014 for her performance as Amy in the HBO series Veep. Her additional screen credits include Hannibal, My Girl and In the Loop. She appeared off-Broadway in Love, Loss and What I Wore and Unconditional. Sills, a Tony nominee for The Scarlet Pimpernel, also appeared on Broadway in Little Shop of Horrors; his additional stage credits include The Addams Family on tour and Moonlight and Magnolias off-Broadway.

In Living on Love, Fleming plays celebrated diva Raquel DeAngelis. When her husband, the fiery and egomaniacal Maestro Vito DeAngelis (Sills), becomes enamored with the lovely Iris Peabody (Chlumsky) hired to ghostwrite his long-delayed autobiography, Rachel retaliates by hiring her very own—and very handsome—ghostwriter to chronicle her life as an opera star. Sparks fly, silverware is thrown, and romance blossoms. The comedy is adapted from Garson Kanin’s Peccadillo.

In addition to Fleming, Chlumsky and Sills, the cast will feature Blake Hammond—who most recently appeared on the Great White Way in First Date—as Bruce and Broadway alum Scott Robertson as Eric. Both also appeared in the Williamstown mounting.

The comedy will feature set design by Derek McLane, costumes by Michael Krass, lighting design by Peter Kaczorowski and sound design by Scott Lehrer.