Principal Casting Announced for B'way-Bound High Fidelity

Additional casting has been announced for the Broadway-bound musical High Fidelity. In addition to previously announced star Will Chase, the tuner will feature Jenn Colella as Laura, Christian Anderson as Dick, Jay Klaitz as Barry, Katy Mixon as Liz and Emily Swallow, Kirsten Wyatt and Anne Warren as women who have had failed relationships with Chase's character Rob.

Colella is best known for playing leading lady Sissy in Urban Cowboy on Broadway. Her other theatrical credits include Peter Pan, Angels in America, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Company, Sylvia, Victor/Victoria, Slut off-Broadway,The Times They Are A Changin' at the Old Globe and the New York Musical Theatre Festival mounting of The Great American Trailer Park Musical.

Anderson recently played Nicky and Trekkie Monster in Avenue Q. His other notable credits include Rent on Broadway and the national tour of The Full Monty.

A frequent performer at Massachusetts's American Repertory Theater, Klaitz' New York theatrical credits include Who is Wilford Brimley? The Musical and The Notebook.

Mixon is featured in the films Zombie Prom and The Quiet. She has performed onstage at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the St. Louise MUNY and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.

Swallow appeared in Measure for Pleasure off-Broadway last season. She also appeared in a Public Theater staging of Much Ado About Nothing in Central Park. Her regional credits include mountings of Sweeney Todd and Carousel.

Walker was featured on Broadway in White Liars & Black Comedy. His other credits include Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme at Williamstown Theatre Festival and off-Broadway productions of The Complete Wrks of Wllm Shkspr Abridged and Debbie Does Dallas.

Wyatt appeared on the Great White Way in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Urinetown. Other theatrical credits include Beehive, Blood Brothers, My One & Only and Dames at Sea.

Hairspray is the only Broadway credit on Warren's resume. Her other work includes the national tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie.

The ensemble of High Fidelity will feature Justin Brill All Shook Up, Rent, Andrew Call Altar Boyz, Matt Caplan Rent, Paul Castree Grease, Footloose, Saturday Night Fever, All Shook Up, Rachel Stern and J.B. Wing.

The musical High Fidelity, based on Nick Hornby's novel of the same name, follows the adventures of Rob Chase, a record store owner who knows almost everything about pop music but almost nothing about how to hang onto a girl. Rob's love life, already a broken record of heartache, falls off the charts completely when he gets dumped by Laura Colella. But that just sets him up for one of the top five romantic comebacks ever. The tuner features music by Tom Kitt, lyrics by Amanda Green and a book by David Lindsay-Abaire.

The show, directed by Walter Bobbie, is scheduled to begin its world premiere engagement at Boston's Colonial Theatre on September 26 and run there through October 22. It is aiming to begin previews on the Great White Way in late November and open in early December at a theater to be announced.