The two performers recently stepped into the Broadway cast of the Bareilles-Jessie Nelson musical at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Tyrone Davis Jr. also steps into the role of Ogie in the Sara Bareilles-Jessie Nelson musical.

In just 10 years, director Eric D. Schaeffer and his seat, Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, have enjoyed the sort of awards, media attention, sellout audiences, extended runs and world premieres usually reserved for the more established regional theatres. His thoughtful, passionate revivals and reconsiderations of such Stephen Sondheim musicals as Passion, Sweeney Todd, Company, Assassins and Sunday in the Park With George earned him attention from Sondheim, The New York Times, producer Cameron Mackintosh and others. Now, he's making his Broadway directorial debut with the Sondheim "review," Putting It Together, starring Carol Burnett and produced by Mackintosh, opening Nov. 21 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. He spoke to Playbill On-Line from Arlington in between Broadway rehearsals.

In just 10 years, director Eric D. Schaeffer and his seat, Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA, have enjoyed the sort of awards, media attention, sellout audiences, extended runs and world premieres usually reserved for the more established regional theatres. His thoughtful, passionate revivals and reconsiderations of such Stephen Sondheim musicals as Passion, Sweeney Todd, Company, Assassins and Sunday in the Park With George earned him attention from Sondheim, The New York Times, producer Cameron Mackintosh and others. Now, he's making his Broadway directorial debut with the Sondheim "review," Putting It Together, starring Carol Burnett and produced by Mackintosh, opening Nov. 21 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. He spoke to Playbill On-Line from Arlington in between Broadway rehearsals.