Josh Gad
Newsweek US
|October 27, 2023
FOR JOSH GAD, THE PATH TO RETURNING TO BROADWAY FOLLOWING HIS star-making performance in Book of Mormon wasn't easy.
"Book of Mormon is a once in a generation thing...you're not going to replicate that. So why are you trying?" But one part Gad is willing to replicate from his Mormon days in his new musical, Gutenberg! The Musical! (currently on Broadway) is his Mormon co-star, Andrew Rannells, who "literally makes me better every time I'm on stage next to him." The musical follows Bud (Gad), the "naive one," and Doug (Rannells) as they workshop a musical about the less-than-factual story of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press. "Gutenberg gives us a chance to come back and flex our muscles comedically in a way that is both familiar, but different." Gad calls the physicality of Gutenberg "
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