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Jordan Fisher Will Play The Kid in Broadway's Purple Rain Musical

Kiran MachadoPublished 2m ago2 min readBased on 1 source
Jordan Fisher Will Play The Kid in Broadway's Purple Rain Musical
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Jordan Fisher will play The Kid in the Purple Rain musical on Broadway, according to an interview with Billboard published on November 10, 2026.

Previews, the performances an audience can see before a show's official opening, are set to begin at the Majestic Theater on March 12, 2027. The opening date is April 12. Rehearsals for the Broadway production officially begin in February.

Before Broadway, the musical is planned to have an out-of-town run in Minneapolis. Out-of-town runs let a production work on its staging, songs and timing in front of audiences before it arrives in New York. The city is also the setting of the 1984 film that the show is based on, and the musical is built around songs from that film's soundtrack.

Fisher is no stranger to the Broadway stage. He played John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in Hamilton, the title role in Dear Evan Hansen, Orpheus in Hadestown, and Antony in Sweeney Todd. Those roles cover a wide range, from a historical musical about America's founders to a show about grief and a teenager's lies, and each one needed a different voice and a different kind of acting.

For Broadway watchers, the casting is one piece of a longer schedule. Lead roles are usually announced months before previews because the cast needs time to learn the material, and the rehearsal period is where the show's sound and staging take shape. For fans of the film, the stage version gives a new group of performers the chance to take on songs that many people already know by heart.

A Broadway musical is a large operation. Each production employs a full cast, a band, stagehands, costume and wig teams, and a marketing crew, and a long run can keep those jobs going for years. Ticket prices, theatre dates and the rest of the creative team have not been detailed so far, and they will likely come later as the schedule fills in.

For now, the dates give the show a clear calendar: rehearsals in February, Minneapolis before Broadway, previews in March and an opening in April.

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