Darren Criss and Beau Bridges Step Into How to Succeed

Darren Criss and Beau Bridges begin performances in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, as J. Pierrepont Finch and J.B. Biggley, respectively.

Criss first achieved Internet fame playing the boy wizard in A Very Potter Musical and A Very Potter Sequel. A co-founder of StarKid productions, he demonstrated his affinity for musical theater in homemade videos of himself singing "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast and "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid. Criss' cover of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" in his first Glee episode debuted at #1 on Billboard for the first time in the show's history, selling more than 200,000 tracks in its first week.

Bridges began his career on the Broadway stage in Where’s Daddy?(1966) and Who’s Who in Hell (1974) and appeared in the original Los Angeles production of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine and in Jane Anderson’s Looking for Normal at the Geffen Theatre. He has acted in more than 100 films, including the forthcoming The Descendants(co-starring George Clooney), The Fabulous Baker Boys (co-starring his brother, Jeff Bridges), The Other Side of the Mountain and Norma Rae. He won Emmy Awards for HBO’s The Second Civil War, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom and Without Warning: The James Brady Story.