Broadway Stars Laura Benanti & Steven Pasquale to Divorce

Broadway stars Laura Benanti and Steven Pasquale are ending their marriage of nearly six years.

In a statement to Broadway.com, the pair said: “After almost six years of marriage, Steven Pasquale and Laura Benanti are amicably filing for divorce. They remain loving and committed friends.”

Benanti and Pasquale were married on September 16, 2007 in Andover, New Jersey, having first met while co-starring in a concert staging of The Secret Garden two years earlier.

Benanti won a Tony Award for her performance in Gypsy and was recently seen on the NBC series Go On. Her other Broadway credits include The Sound of Music, Swing! Into the Woods, Nine, The Wedding Singer, In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

Pasquale just concluded a run in the off-Broadway musical Far From Heaven and will be next seen in The Bridges of Madison County at Williamstown Theater Festival in August and on Broadway in 2014. He’s best known for his work on TV in the acclaimed series Rescue Me and in the recent short-lived Do No Harm.