Huge Bang Principle alum Jim Parsons is having one other massive second on Broadway, and former costar Kaley Cuoco was there to take all of it in.
On Saturday, November 23, Cuoco shared an Instagram Tales pic of herself and Parsons sharing a hug. She instructed followers she stunned him at one in every of his performances of the Thornton Wilder play Our City at New York Metropolis’s Ethel Barrymore Theater.
“Go see Jim Parsons in @ourtownbroadway!” Cuoco added within the caption. “It’s past.”
Parsons portrays the Stage Supervisor in Our City, becoming a member of Katie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, Ephraim Sykes, and two dozen different actors on stage because the play returns to Broadway for the primary time in additional than 20 years. “In Wilder’s timeless story of a small city, a stage supervisor narrates the day by day lives of its locals, depicts a childhood friendship flip into marriage, and units the stage for magnificent truths of what it means to be alive,” the logline for the Kenny Leon-directed manufacturing reads.
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And Parsons is getting rave critiques for the function, with Selection’s Aramide Tinubu calling him “completely solid” and The New York Occasions’ Jesse Inexperienced calling him “mercilessly acute.”
Inexperienced added, “Together with his mild contact and cynical sang-froid, and the comedian timing he has honed for years on tv, [Parsons] makes an ideally shrewd and withholding Stage Supervisor, putting you simply the place he needs you through the banter to realize the best vulnerability to the blows.”
Parsons can be coming off a Tony-nominated efficiency in Broadway’s Mom Play, which ran from April to June of this 12 months.
In fact, Parsons is greatest recognized for taking part in Sheldon Cooper on The Huge Bang Principle, on which Cuoco performed Penny Hofstadter. The CBS sitcom ran from 2007 to 2019 and earned its top-billed solid members $1 million an episode plus backend income, in keeping with Forbes.
Parsons beforehand raved about his friendship with Cuoco in a November 2022 interview with Leisure Tonight. “She’s a comforting presence, and it was a pleasure to work together with her day in and day trip,” he stated. “She’s a really heat particular person.”
Of his time on The Huge Bang Principle, Parsons stated, “I can’t overstate how impactful and constructive it was for me. The sensation of thankfulness and gratitude in [my] coronary heart for the entire thing, it’s nearly overwhelming.”