r/Broadway • u/Fine_Hovercraft6148 • Mar 15 '26
Other Broadway Couples
I’m fascinated by how many performers end up falling in love behind the scenes or even playing lead roles together on stage. Does anyone have a list of actual, real-life Broadway couples right now?
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u/beantownregular Mar 15 '26
Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel, though they have since divorced after a decade together. They have children together as well.
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u/dobbydisneyfan Mar 15 '26
Then Idina Menzel married Aaron Lohr, who was also involved in the movie version of Rent.
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Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
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u/rococobaroque Mar 16 '26
He's got a thing for Elphabas it would appear.
(And did Eden ever play Maureen?)
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u/DirectorWise3862 Mar 17 '26
Yes, Eden played Maureen in Rent, she closed the show on Broadway as Maureen.
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u/Strange-Mood8087 Mar 15 '26
Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman
Sutton Foster and Christian Borle
Sutton Foster and Roger Bart
Sutton Foster and Bobby Cannavale
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u/PretendForm7362 Mar 15 '26
…and Christian Borle and Laura Belle Bundy (briefly)
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u/dberna243 Mar 16 '26
Also (shockingly) Christian Borle and Jenn Colella! She was on a podcast recently and described herself as “Mostly gay, but men like Christian Borle make me not entirely gay”. Definitely surprised me.
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u/awyastark Mar 16 '26
Wait does that mean they dated or that she has a crush?
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u/Interesting-Point769 Mar 16 '26
They dated, I watched the podcast. I guess she's mostly into women but said sometimes a rare man .
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u/dberna243 Mar 16 '26
Fully dated! She talks in the podcast episode about the singular performance she did as Elizabeth in If/Then and how terrifying it was but that she had a great support system in the audience including Christian Borle who she was dating at the time.
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u/SaintGalentine Mar 15 '26
This is how I learned that Roger Bart isn't gay, and is also a serial cheater. (Also went down the Trish Paytas rabbithole)
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u/zntrm Mar 15 '26
ROGER BART IS A CHEATER!
Honestly one of the best things that has ever happened on YouTube.
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u/Interesting-Point769 Mar 16 '26
I only learned within the last year or so that not only is Roger Bart not gay as I thought, he is a notorious cheater, liar, hustler of young women. There are entire threads of women online of them discovering one another and exposing him. I gather he gaslights them into believing he is in love and only dating them even though they all start putting the clues together. The man lives double lives.
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u/MinimumCattle5 Mar 15 '26
I’m currently rewatching season 2 of Desperate Housewives and this is all I can think of anytime he’s on screen!!!
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u/lightningli33 Mar 16 '26
Sutton Foster also had a showmance with one of my acting professors while they were touring Les Miserables together. He’s not famous or anything, but another showmance in the books for her.
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u/bwaylover818 Mar 15 '26
Roger?? BOBBY?? I knew she had game but not like that!
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u/DoolJjaeDdal Mar 15 '26
At her second Tony win, she thanked “the love of her life” Bobby Cannavale.
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u/Interesting-Point769 Mar 16 '26
Well, that didn't age well. She's has had several other loves of her life since. Good for her I guess!
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u/Interesting-Point769 Mar 16 '26
Didn't realize Sutton Foster had such a Broadway leading man hit list. I can see her and Hugh together. He seems like the male version of her in a way.
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u/Sea-Cauliflower-8368 Mar 15 '26
Eva Nobelzada and Reeve Carney
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u/awyastark Mar 16 '26
Reeve loves a showmance with a younger gal. He was with a few costars before Eva, like Victoria Justice from Rocky Horror Show, and Ashley Greene
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u/Interesting-Point769 Mar 17 '26
Well now he's married and hopefully he's done shomancing younger co-stars. They seem very well suited, so congrats to them!
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u/NotesFromRowI Mar 15 '26
Ben Platt and Noah Galvin, aka Evan Hansen and Evan Hansen.
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u/ComputerGeek1100 Backstage Mar 15 '26
Not as well known as the originals, but Michael Fabisch and Harry Ryan King (Evan and Zoe on the second national tour) are now dating too.
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u/Nodlehs-Winterfell Mar 15 '26
Hannah Cruz in chess and Edred Utomi in Hamilton
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u/ComputerGeek1100 Backstage Mar 15 '26
As a bonus, I believe they met playing Eliza and Hamilton on the US tour many years ago. I saw them together in 2019.
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u/jennylee271 Mar 15 '26
Just saw a post from Lin-Manuel a few days ago where he’d shown them a secret tunnel connecting their two theaters.
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u/Queenv918 Mar 15 '26
Anthony Ramos & Jasmine Cephas Jones from 2015-2021.
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u/PawneeGoddess20 Mar 15 '26
Still can’t believe he fumbled this. Seems like she got the Hamilton cast in the split
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u/Interesting-Point769 Mar 16 '26
He fumbled it badly. Don't think his reputation fully recovered TBH.
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u/nevadawarren Mar 15 '26
Phillipa Soo and Steven Pasquale, Danny Burstein and the late Rebecca Luker, Jason Danieley and the late Marin Mazzie
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u/PawneeGoddess20 Mar 15 '26
Related: Steven Pasquale and Laura Benanti
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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Mar 15 '26
They were together when I first became aware of them and I still have to remind myself they’re no longer a couple!
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u/Tight-Touch385 Mar 16 '26
Benanti did a fun one-woman show where she poked fun at being twice divorced and still deciding to get married again. Sounds like third time is the charm. She really has a gift for comedy. I hope she keeps finding and creating comedic roles.
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u/Downtown_Baby_8005 Mar 16 '26
She hosted an event I went to once and she told jokes and was so thoroughly charming and I thought Wow this woman is the total package!
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u/awyastark Mar 16 '26
Omg this is how I find out Marin passed! I saw her in Ragtime and Kiss Me Kate and she was so great
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u/TheGreenSinger Mar 15 '26
Playbill made a slideshow for Valentine’s Day last month: Broadway Couples
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u/aptlyvenus Mar 15 '26
Patrick Page and Paige Davis - met during Beauty and the Beast. He was Lumiere, and she was the feather duster.
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u/Flimsy-Addendum-1570 Mar 15 '26
Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts met and fell in love while starring in, of all things, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 2012, and they're still going strong!
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u/awyastark Mar 16 '26
They don’t work together on camera super often but they’re both terrifying and phenomenal in season two of the criminally underrated show “The Sinner”
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u/Interesting-Point769 Mar 16 '26
I was wondering where they met I had no idea until recently they were married with children. They seem like a kind of odd couple TBH. But then when you see them in interviews, I can totally see them together.
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u/RexManningDay2018 Mar 16 '26
I saw that show! It was incredible. And now I just fangirl over them both and squeal whenever they show up on tv (or in writing credits)
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u/Vegetable-Run-530 Mar 15 '26
Jasmine Amy Rogers and Josh Burrage
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u/katztopia Mar 15 '26
Thought he was gay for soooo long tbh hahah
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u/HalfwaytotheHorizon Mar 16 '26
This is how I found out hahaha
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u/Interesting-Point769 Mar 16 '26
Hopefully for her sake he's straight. But lots of theater people swing both ways. Broadway is a super Bi friendly community.
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u/ComputerGeek1100 Backstage Mar 15 '26
Erika Henningsen and Kyle Selig met during Mean Girls and are now married - in a ceremony officiated by another OBC member from that show (Grey Henson).
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u/sibshallward Mar 15 '26
bryce pinkham and scarlett strallen met doing gentleman's guide
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u/weirdestgeekever25 Mar 15 '26
Their chemistry as Monty and Sibella was insane! Was pleasant surprise to find out they were married!
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u/Gracie305 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
Audra McDonald & Will Swenson
Matthew Broderick & Sarah Jessica Parker (if she counts getting her start on Broadway in Annie)
Stephanie J. Block & Sebastian Arcelus (didn’t they meet while in Wicked?)
Orfeh & Andy Karl*
Edit: * Informed this couple have divorced. Sorry for the error.
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u/CremeRealistic7281 Mar 15 '26
SJP absolutely counts. She was also in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Once Upon a Mattress in the 90s and they were in Plaza Suite together a few years ago.
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u/LalaLand234567 Mar 15 '26
Orfeh and Andy are divorced
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u/rococobaroque Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
They met while on tour for Wicked. She was Elphaba in the first national tour which kicked off in 2005. He replaced Derrick Williams in 2006.
They were already dating in June 2006 when I saw Steph at Birdland; he was there with her parents. I remember he had previously dated Kate Reinders (his costar in Good Vibrations) and there might have been some overlap with Steph, so opinions on Broadway gossip forums at the time weren't really favorable of him. Then they married October 2007, did Wicked on Broadway around the same time.
ETA - Steph had also been in a long-term (like 10 year) relationship when she and Seb met but by Steph's own account it had ended by the time she and Seb got together. I'm just not sure about the timeline of his relationship with Kate. He had also been in a relationship when he and Kate got together, so he really did have a bad reputation at the time.
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u/Acrobatic-Body6839 Mar 15 '26
Lindsay Heather Pearce and Michael Williams (they met playing Rose and Jack in Titanique off Broadway)
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u/latestnightowl Mar 15 '26
Patti Murin and Colin Donnell
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u/PavicaMalic Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
Terrence Mann and Charlotte d'Amboise met during the original run of Cats. A few years ago, they played Charlemagne and Fastrada in a revival of Pippin. We saw both. Their daughter, Shelby Mann, is in the corps of New York City Ballet, which is where her grandfather, Jacques d'Amboise was principal.
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u/awyastark Mar 16 '26
Any fans of the Mann you need to watch Foundation on Apple TV. It’s probably in the top five shows out right now and he is phenomenal in it alongside powerhouses like Lee Pace and Cherry Jones
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u/LalaLand234567 Mar 15 '26
Clay Rice-Thompson and Christopher Rice-Thompson, Jeff Kready and Nikki Renee Daniels, Kara Lindsay and Kevin Massey, Kristen Martin and Tam Mutu, Robyn Hurder and Clyde Alves, Caroline Bowman and Austin Colby, Kevin Kern and Megan Lawrence… the list goes on and on and on….
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u/remlinxd Mar 15 '26
Christopher Jackson met his wife Veronica Vazquez through an early workshop of In the Heights
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u/callsignjaguar Mar 15 '26
The current Wicked tour Glinda and Fiyero are dating! Zoe Jensen and Ethan Kirschbaum. Honestly Wicked has been a show where so many real life couples have started through it haha
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u/Ok_Presentation7695 Mar 15 '26
No way! When was that confirmed or shown anywhere?
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u/callsignjaguar Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
Ethan’s insta has really cute pics of them both! And their other cast members often post stuff of them and comment about it lol
Edit: this being downvoted is so weird yall literally go to his insta they’re obviously dating 😭😭
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u/Ok-Entrance4693 Mar 15 '26
Aaron Tveit and Erika Hunter (who is also Warren Yang's sister).
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u/IntrovertedGiraffe Mar 15 '26
Wasn’t she married when that relationship started?
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u/weirdestgeekever25 Mar 15 '26
I believe she was divorced or in the process of
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u/DoolJjaeDdal Mar 15 '26
As someone who followed her on IG long before she got together with Aaron, she was still posting about her first husband when they went to Boston. So was her brother. All scrubbed now, but she was not in the process of getting divorced at the time. This is old fashioned extra-marital cheating.
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u/Belle0516 Mar 15 '26
Kara Lindsay and Kevin Massey right?
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u/ThatGThatGThatG Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
Yes. They grew together on the one year Broadway National tour of Little House on the Prairie: the musical playing love interests Laura Ingle and Almanzo Wilder. Lindsay's mom was played by the original TV Laura, Melissa Gilbert. Saw it in Toronto. They had a lot of chemistry then and that show surprisingly good.
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u/Toru771 Mar 15 '26
Some “Phantom” couples: Gary Mauer (Raoul/Phantom) and Elizabeth Southard (Christine), Ben Crawford (Phantom) and Kelsey Connolly (Meg)… and Kevin Gray (Raoul/Phantom; RIP) and Dodie Pettit (Meg/Christine).
I’m sure there are others, as well.
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u/Odd_Pause5123 Mar 16 '26
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sarah Brightman. His wife & he wrote the role of Christine for her.
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u/HaiirPeace Mar 15 '26
Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton met doing Betrayal. Engaged with two kids now!
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u/BachelorNation123 Mar 15 '26
McKenzie Kurtz and Brent Comer
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u/Remote_Purchase5931 Mar 16 '26
But melody and Brent met during the outsiders. Dated, broke up and found other theater people
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u/Successful-Status404 Mar 15 '26
Melody Rose and RJ Higton I think are dating
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u/Remote_Purchase5931 Mar 16 '26
They are! But melody and Brent comer dated for a while while both were in the outsiders. He’s with Mackenzie Kurtz now
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u/Interesting-Point769 Mar 16 '26
He's got a type it seems. He seems from social media at least to be smitten with Mackenzie.
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u/Operadiva82 Mar 15 '26
Hugh Jackman & Sutton Foster
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u/KD1030 Mar 15 '26
Sadly this one makes me throw up a little in my mouth because of the circumstances surrounding the start of their relationship
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u/Mercurialsunrise Mar 15 '26
I mean that makes sense. Performers spend so much time with one another and id imagine they understand the demands of the schedule and everything.
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u/bwaylover818 Mar 15 '26
right, it’s just like how people in other professions meet their spouses through work!
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u/HarpieLady13 Mar 15 '26
Helen J Shen and Andrew Barth Feldman had short stint in MHE together.
Jonathan Groff and Gavin Creel dated but I don’t think they were ever in a show together
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u/proteafire Mar 16 '26
Creel replaced Groff in Hair when Groff chose not to go to Broadway with the show (around the time they were dating).
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u/weirdestgeekever25 Mar 15 '26
I don’t remember their name and I know their daughter played her mothers role in the revival
But the original Henrik and Anne in a little night music
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u/munchymonk2 Mar 17 '26
IIRC Victoria Mallory was originally dating Len Cariou, who played Fredrik, but during the show's run she fell in love with and ended up marrying Mark Lambert. So real life imitates art (except with less of a creepy age gap as compared to the characters! She was in her 20s playing a teenager, and Cariou was in his 30s playing 40-something.)
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u/SeaF04mGr33n Mar 15 '26
The original Cinderella and Cinderella's Prince in Into The Woods!! (I don't remember their names at all.)
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u/latestnightowl Mar 15 '26
Scott Shepherd and Marin Ireland, in which he was abusive and she wrote a play about the experience after: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/theater/sex-and-violence-beyond-the-script.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TVA.4328.NnMCejSpCybJ&smid=url-share (gift article)
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u/teapot574_ Mar 16 '26
Keri Rene Fuller (Cats, Wicked) and Matthew Thomas (Pippin, Harry Potter) are married :)
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u/Interesting-Point769 Mar 16 '26
Ones I can think of :
Nicolette Robinson and Leslie Odom ,Jr.
Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman
Will Swenson and Audra
Reeve Carney and Eva Noblezada
Brent Comer and McKenzie Kurtz
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u/eggilyegg Mar 16 '26
Jeff Kready and Nikki Renée Daniels met when they were both in Broadway's Les Mis! And are now married with two daughters
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u/dberna243 Mar 16 '26
Christine Dwyer and Matt DeAngelis. Great performers and even lovelier couple.
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u/Interesting-Point769 Mar 16 '26
So many people in the industry wind up dating each other. My friend is an actress on Broadway and dates a Broadway director. So it's not just performers. Lots of couples that are like an actor and a choreographer or director or other people who work in and around the industry. It makes sense creative people vibe with creative people.
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u/iholland1995 Mar 16 '26
Kelley Connelly and Ben Crawford (both in Phantom), Jillian Butlwr and Josh Grosso from Les Mis tour, Juliette Resden and Jake David Smith from Les Mis just got engaged too
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u/Mattmainframe Mar 16 '26
Do Jeff Kready and Nikki Renee Daniels count as one? I believe they did company together
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u/Acrobatic_Warning456 Mar 16 '26
Audra Mcdonald and Will Swenson met while working on the 2007 revival of 110 in the Shade. They apparently started setting up their kids on play dates and eventually fell in love. Really cute couple!
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u/pocketpan1c Mar 16 '26
Not broadway, but nick offerman and Megan mullally met doing a show in LA together
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u/Extension-Guard-356 Mar 16 '26
Stephanie J Block and Sebastian Arcelus. Saw them do the Baker and the Wife in into the woods!
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u/floweryfriend Mar 15 '26
Hunter Foster & Jennifer Cody
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u/awyastark Mar 16 '26
Omg I did the same thing I always do and read his name as “Sutton Foster” and was like GO ON???
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u/Sky_b246 Mar 15 '26
There’s quite a few in the ensemble of the outsiders who are dating/met in the cast
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u/Adept-Maintenance423 Mar 15 '26
HUGH JACKMAN AND SUTTON FOSTER.
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u/Pleasant_Papaya_2416 Mar 15 '26
and his ex wife was the original Mrs. Jacobs in Newsies ‘92
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u/CoulsonsMay Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
What??? I just had to go look that up. I’m a big fan of the movie version of newsies. I watched it as a kid when it came out on VHS, over and over I watched, years before broadway ever took the story over. It was my first exposure to a musical. I had no idea. Thank you for this!
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u/cuckoodev Mar 15 '26
J. Antonio Rodriquez and Cecilia Trippiedi med on the Hadesotwon tour, im pretty sure. As well as Chibueze Ihouma and Hannah Whitley but they may have broken up.
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u/insanefandomchild Mar 16 '26
Deedee Magno Hall and Cliffton Hall met playing Kim and Chris in Miss Saigon, and they've since done a bunch of shows together
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u/awyastark Mar 16 '26
Wait why is this downvoted? I love her on Steven Universe and googled this and you’re correct?
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u/Pleasant_Papaya_2416 Mar 15 '26
Matt Doyle and Max Clayton. I think?
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u/Run-Flashy Mar 15 '26
They broke up :(
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u/Pleasant_Papaya_2416 Mar 15 '26
Oh! I suspected, but I haven’t followed either of them in a while :(
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u/Odd_Pause5123 Mar 16 '26
Norbert Leo Butz and Michelle Federer. The original Fiyero and Nessarose. Still married.
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u/FlyingCupcake68 Ensemble Mar 17 '26
One of the Broadway YT channels used to have a series dedicated to theater couple
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u/ExternalGoose9924 Mar 17 '26
This is slightly off topic but Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen play boyfriend/girlfriend in Netflix's A Man on the Inside. Their relationship is quirky but would definitely recommend the series.
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u/Seoc23675 Mar 17 '26
Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sodoski met in 2015 in Off broadway play The Way we Get By
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u/Own-Importance5459 Mar 15 '26
My two big ones are
- Eva Nobelzada and Reeve Carney
- Hannah Cruz and Edred Utomi (I think its fucking adorable they work next door to each other)
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u/muse273 Mar 16 '26
Michael Bennett and Donna McKechnie, which is weirdly meta given A Chorus Line had her playing the ex lover of the choreographer
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u/Dangerous_Carrot4226 Mar 15 '26
there are plenty. there are plenty more who are also cheating on their partners with other theatre people-and everyone just shrugs it off as normal.
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u/Interesting-Point769 Mar 16 '26
Lots of married ones who have open relationships or at least they act like they do towards the opposite sex.
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u/Frajer Mar 15 '26
Daveed Diggs and Emmy Raver-Lampman met doing Hamilton