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Andrew Richardson, debut star of Guys & Dolls, on boarding school, meeting Hugh Jackman and his brea

When the pandemic laid waste to the New York arts economy, Richardson withdrew to North Carolina, disenchanted with acting. He was writing music and considering his options when a British agent friend offered to send him up for some UK jobs — ‘I quite literally said, anything but musicals…’ After a taped and in-person audition for Guys & Dolls, he heard he’d been cast as Sky while visiting his partner of five years, Fay van Baar, a dancer with Nederlands Dans Theater. The news came via his mum. ‘When I go through callbacks and I know I am down to the last few, I turn my phone off, because otherwise I’m just waiting for news,’ he says, as if this is completely normal.

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