Brian Stokes Mitchell on the Joys of Playing a Cad in Women on the Verge

Brian Stokes Mitchell is such a familiar presence at Broadway events from his years of service to the Actors’ Fund, it’s a jolt to realize that this Tony-winning star last acted on Broadway in the 2002 revival of Man of La Mancha. After that show closed, Stokes (as everyone calls him) became a first-time father at age 45, and he’s spent the past seven years as an in-demand concert artist and doting dad to Ellington, his son with actress wife Allyson Tucker. It took the role of Milanese lady-killer Ivan in Lincoln Center Theater’s musical adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown to coax the ever-suave Mitchell into doing eight shows a week again. During a busy week of prep before a pair of Christmas concerts with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Stokes discussed the appeal of playing a charming anti-hero and reflected on a career that has spanned more than 30 years, from his long run on TV’s Trapper John, M.D to Broadway and more.

First things first: It’s so nice to have you back on the musical stage.
Thank you. I had been on ...

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