By Jennifer R Jones | Posted on April 20, 2013 1:58 PM
Top Broadway Fan Favorites Kristen Chenoweth And Matthew Broderick Will Star In An Upcoming Cbs Comedy That Has Yet To Be Named.
Broadway Favorites Will Star In New CBS Comedy
Two of Broadway's favorite performers, Kristin Chenoweth and Matthew Broderick, will star opposite each other in an upcoming TV comedy pilot for CBS. The new show does not yet have a title.
The television show, to be directed by TV legend James Burrows (Cheers, Frasier, Friends), is about widowed father Jack (Matthew Broderick), a man who is trying to get back into the dating game while also raising a 12-year-old son. Kristin Chenoweth will co-star as Jack's sister Marnie, a waitress.
Kristin Chenoweth And Matthew Broderick
Both Broderick and Chenoweth are Tony Award winning performers with plenty of Broadway experience. Broderick got his start as a young man on Broadway in Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues in the mid-'80s and is currently headlining the Broadway musical Nice Work If You Can Get It.
Chenoweth became a star with her Tony winning featured role in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown in 1999 and solidified her reputation as a Broadway star in Wicked in 2003.
