"major script changes." In early 2005, production plans were announced for Wildhorn's new musical Cyrano de Bergerac, from the same team that helped launch his career with The Scarlet Pimpernel. The title role was written specifically for Sills, however, producers dropped plans for the show in spring 2006 without explanation. A studio-concept recording was planned, starring Sills, Linda Eder and Rob Evan, but plans also quickly fell through. In 2009, Sills starred opposite Kristin Chenoweth at the Encores! New York City Center production of Music in the Air, a long-forgotten Kern-Hamerstein musical from the 1930s. The concert-style version ran February 5 through February 8. Sills assumed the role of Gomez Addams in the national tour of The Addams Family in September 2011 until the company's closing on December 30, 2012. From March 27 to April 12, 2013, Sills took on the role of Jack in Long Wharf Theatre's production of William Mastrosimone's Ride the Tiger. Sills played Walter Burns in La Jolla Playhouse's production of His Girl Friday from May 28 to June 30, 2013. Sills appeared on Broadway beginning in April 2015, playing an aging orchestra conductor in the comedy Living on Love, written by Joe DiPietro, starring Renee Fleming, Jerry O'Connell and Anna Chlumsky. He appeared in the new musical Dave at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. in 2018, in the role of Chief of Staff Bob Alexander. The musical has music by Tom Kitt, lyrics by Nell Benjamin, and the book by Benjamin and Thomas Meehan and is based on the 1993 film Dave. Beginning in 2022, Sills played Monsieur Baudin in HBO’s The Gilded Age. Notable theatre roles References External links 1960 births American male musical theatre actors Male actors from Detroit Cranbrook Educational Community alumni Living people University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumni People from Franklin, Michigan Theatre World Award winners American Conservatory Theater alumni