Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing officially opens at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre March 12. Previews began February 21. Jeremy Herrin and Macmillan are co-directing.
Merrily We Roll Along Tony winner Daniel Radcliffe returns to the Main Stem in the work, in which a nameless protagonist faces a distant father, a suicidal mother, and his own inexplicable deep sadness. And in a spark of childhood genius, he counteracts these obstacles by chronicling every brilliant thing in the world—first to cheer up his depressed mother, and later for friends, lovers, and himself. Those things include items ranging from simple pleasures ("ice cream,” “the color yellow”) to the far more specific and detailed ("old people who are kind and don’t smell unusual,” “the even numbered Star Trek films").
Above, Radcliffe, Macmillan, and Herrin discuss why the show is truly different every night and how to get called on during the show to participate.
