• Michael C. Hall's next step is going to be a gender bending one -- the former Dexter star will play the rock chanteuse at the center of Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway. Producers of the Tony Award-winning musical revival said Monday that Hall will pull on a miniskirt and play the German transsexual Hedwig at the Belasco Theatre starting Oct. 16, through Jan. 4. Hall will be taking over from Andrew Rannells, the Tony Award-nominated star of The Book of Mormon on Broadway and HBO's Girls. Rannells, in turn, replaced Tony-winner and How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris. Rannells ends his run Oct. 12. Hall was one of a quartet of actors on Broadway starring in Will Eno's play The Realistic Joneses this spring. He joined Toni Collette, Marisa Tomei and Tracy Letts. Hall has sung onstage before. He took over from Alan Cumming as the white-faced emcee in the latest revival of Cabaret, a part he played almost 500 times. Now he'll be rocking out tunes including "Sugar Daddy" and "Wicked Little Town" in platform heels. In his first Broadway show, he was an understudy in David Hare's Skylight in 1996. His breakout roles -- as a funeral director on HBO's Six Feet Under and then Dexter -- earned him Emmy Award nominations.
• Kim Kardashian and Kanye West aren't the only ones who tied the knot this year in Italy. So did Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka. The How I Met Your Mother star and his actor-chef groom were married Saturday in Italy. They'd been dating for 10 years and are parents to 3-year-old twins, Gideon and Harper. The grooms wore custom Tom Ford tuxedos and Elton John performed at the reception. "Yup, we put the 'n' and 'd' in 'husband,'" Harris tweeted Monday. His publicist later confirmed the news. Harris, 41, just won a Tony Award for his role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. He has been in several Broadway productions, including Assassins, Proof and as the exuberant master of ceremonies in Cabaret. Burtka, 39, played Tulsa in the Bernadette Peters-led revival of Gypsy, was seen off-Broadway in The Play About the Baby and is also a chef. How I Met Your Mother producer Pam Fryman officiated at the wedding. Same-sex marriages are not allowed in Italy so it was not legally binding in that country. The next celebrity couple to pick Italy to marry is George Clooney and human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin. They are to tie the knot in Venice in a couple of weeks.
A Section on 09/10/2014