Co-writers and original stars of The Big Voice: God or Merman?, Jim Brochu and Steve Schalchlin, will play their final performance in the musical on March 11, making way for new pair, Carl Danielsen and Dale Radunz, who will start performances on March 17. The cast change comes as the tuner also crosses the 100th performance mark at off-Broadway's Actors' Temple Theatre.
Danielsen has appeared off-Broadway in Trolls and Picon Pie, and Radunz has been seen in Big River and Annie.
"It has been so exciting and a dream of ours to bring The Big Voice to New York," said Jim Brochu in a production statement. "The way the theater community has embraced this show has been thrilling." Steve Schalchlin added, "We enthusiastically welcome Carl and Dale to The Big Voice family, and know they will be an amazing success."
The Big Voice chronicles the lives of a Baptist from Arkansas and a Catholic from Brooklyn who find salvation in the temple of musical theatre. The Big Voice traces Brochu and Schalchlin's meeting aboard a ship in the Atlantic Ocean, Schalchlin's struggle with AIDS, the production of their hit off-broadway musical The Last Session, their separation and their reconciliation. It's a comedy about a "gay marriage" between two men created by the couple themselves.
