Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents: Chip Zien

This week on Live From the Hotel Edison, owner Suzanna Bowling is honored to welcome Jerome Herbert "Chip" Zien, best known for originating the lead role of the Baker in the original Broadway production of the musical Into the Woodsby Stephen Sondheim. He appeared in all of the "Marvin Trilogy" musicals by William Finn: as Marvin in In Trousers, and as Dr. Mendel in March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland and Falsettos. In 2023, he returned to Broadway to critical acclaim in the lead role of Rabbi Josef Roman Cycowski in Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's Harmony.

In 1989, he starred as Otto Kringelein in Grand Hotel and in 2007, he played Mssr. Thénardier in Les Misérables, both on Broadway. He also created the role of Mr. Bungee in the original production of A New Brain. On the screen, he portrayed Mark Rothenberg in the film United 93. He is also known for providing the voice of the titular character in the film Howard the Duck. In 2012, he returned to Into the Woods at the Delacorte Theater portraying the Mysterious Man, the father of the Baker.

Currently in Reunions, a new musical currently at City Center Stage until December 14th .He is about to go into Atlantic Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation off-Broadway debut of The Reservoirrunning February 5, 2026-March 15, 2026, with an official opening on February 24.