Young Completes Opening Doors Cast

Broadway.com has learned that Eric Jordan Young will complete the five-person cast of the Stephen Sondheim revue Opening Doors at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall. Kate Baldwin, Carolee Carmello, Victoria Clark and Gregg Edelman, who we previously reported were offered parts in the show, are now confirmed.

Young has appeared on Broadway in Chicago in which he has occupied various roles, including lawyer Billy Flynn, Ragtime, Seussical and The Look of Love. He has also been featured in off-Broadway productions of Mr. President and Little Fish. Young won the 2001 Helen Hayes Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Resident Musical for his performance as Jake in the Signature Theatre's mounting of Side Show. His other regional theater credits include Starlight Express, Dreamgirls, Big River and Hair.

Opening Doors is a revue of more than 40 songs that was first staged at London's Bridewell Theatre in July 2000 under the name Moving On and starred Geoffrey Abbott, Linzi Hately, Belinda Lang, Robert Meadmore and Angela Richards. Its current title, Opening Doors, is the name of a song in Merrily We Roll Along. Songs included at the time were: "Opening Doors," "Me and My Town," "Another Hundred People," "Broadway Baby," "Multitudes of Amys," "Old Friends," "Side by Side by Side, "Not a Day Goes By," "Goodbye for Now," "In Buddy's Eyes" and "With So Little to Be Sure Of." Interspersed among the tunes are recorded audio excerpts in which Sondheim shares personal observations about his childhood, his creative life and his career.

The show, directed by David Kernan, is scheduled to run for 10 performances September 30 through October 9.