Rachel Stern has taken over the role of Liz in the Broadway-bound musical High Fidelity, now in performance at Boston's Colonial Theatre. The wisecracking featured part, Joan Cusack in the film version of the story, was originally played by Katy Mixon during previews of the musical. Stern took over the part shortly before the official Boston opening on October 5.
Stern, who made her Broadway debut earlier this year as a swing in the company of Tarzan, was originally an ensemble member of High Fidelity. An NYU graduate, Stern has also been seen in Hair at Theatre Under the Stars in Houston, Texas and Missionaries at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
High Fidelity tells the story of Rob Will Chase, a record store owner who knows almost everything there is to know about pop music, but almost nothing about how to hold on to a girl. Rob's love life, already a broken record of heartache, falls off the charts completely when he gets dumped by Laura Jenn Colella—but that just sets him up for one of the top five romantic comebacks ever.
High Fidelity is scheduled to play at the Colonial Theatre through October 22 and start at Broadway's Imperial Theatre on November 20.
