Bill and Ted’s Next Excellent Adventure Is… Broadway?

They’ve gone backmost successful time, they’ve gone to hell, and they’ve saved the universe. And now, Bill and Ted volition spell connected their scariest travel yet: to Broadway. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who starred successful the time-traveling trilogy of films, are acceptable to reunite onstage adjacent twelvemonth for the classical play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.

“We’re incredibly excited to beryllium connected signifier unneurotic and enactment with the large Jamie Lloyd successful 1 of our favourite plays,” the actors said in a associated statement. Lloyd, who precocious made Romeo & Juliet with Tom Holland, volition nonstop the production.

Wildly enough, adjacent though Reeves has been a monolithic Hollywood prima for implicit 30 years, he’s ne'er appeared connected Broadway before. Winter has, but it’s been decades. In the play, Reeves volition play Estragon and Winter volition play Vladimir, 2 friends who hap to beryllium waiting to conscionable the aforesaid idiosyncratic who, spoiler alert, ne'er comes. In the meantime, they sermon galore things and research the ups and downs of their narration and friendship.

Before the amusement opens adjacent year, we’ll beryllium seeing and proceeding a batch from Reeves. He’ll look successful the body-swap movie Good Fortune with Seth Rogen and Aziz Ansari, is voicing Shadow successful Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and volition reprise the relation of John Wick successful adjacent summer’s Ballerina. Winter besides conscionable wrapped a movie called Adulthood, which helium not lone stars successful but directs.

Anyone funny successful seeing Bill and Ted hold for Godot tin motion up for updates on the show’s authoritative website.

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