Former Lestat Understudy Drew Sarich Assumes Role of Armand Full-Time
by Broadway.com Staff • Jan 6, 2006
Drew Sarich, who has been playing the role of Armand in Lestat since the departure of original star Jack Noseworthy on December 22, will take over the part permanently. Lestat opens in its pre-Broadway engagement at San Francisco's Curran Theatre on Sunday, January 8.
Sarich will make his Broadway debut in Lestat when it starts performances at the Palace Theatre on March 11. He appeared on the New York stage in off-Broadway's Tony n' Tina's Wedding and subsequently toured as a back-up singer for Liza Minnelli. In 1999, Sarich made a splash playing Quasimodo in the Berlin production of Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame. He has recently made his home in Vienna, where he has played Berger in Hair, Cousin Kevin in Tommy and Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and also fronts his own rock band.