Rachel Bloom set for Imaginary Invalid Broadway

Rachel Bloom will make her Broadway debut this fall in Roundabout Theatre Company's new adaptation of Molière's The Imaginary Invalid, with Bill Irwin as Argan who also directed and adapted the show. Bloom stars as Toinette alongside a supporting cast that includes Bill Irwin as the hypochondriacal Argan, Brooks Ashmanskas, Dylan Baker, Hiram Delgado, Crystal A. Dickinson, Daniel Croix Henderson, and Ava Lalezarzadeh. Previews begin September 25 at the Todd Haimes Theatre in New York, with an official opening on October 22 and a limited engagement running through November 22. The production marks Bloom's first Broadway appearance after a career spanning television, music, and Off-Broadway work, including Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and her one-woman show Death, Let Me Do My Show. The creative team features Beowulf Boritt on Set Design, Karen Perry on Costume, and Brandon J. Dirden directing in his Broadway debut, continuing Irwin's collaboration on a razor-sharp Molière comedy about a man scheming to secure medical benefits.