Mark Consuelos is headed to The Great White Way!
On Wednesday, Kelly Ripa shared the exciting news with her “Live With Kelly and Mark” audience.
“I have a big announcement to make. A huge announcement to make,” the actress, 55, began before touching the “Riverdale” star’s arm.
“You see this man right here? Mark Consuelos? Cohost of this here talk show? He’s going to Broadway! That’s right!” Ripa, who tied the knot with her other half in 1996, continued.
Consuelos, 54, is set to star alongside Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara in a Broadway production of Noël Coward’s 1925 play “Fallen Angels.”
The show will follow the lives of two married women. However, they have the same secret lover, Maurice Duclos, played by Consuelos.
The “All My Children” alum explained to the audience that he “started sweating” backstage when he realized he’d have to announce his next career move live.
“Is the anxiety kicking in? When you agreed to do it months ago, my anxiety kicked in,” Ripa confessed.
“I’ve been wanting to do this,” Consuelos detailed. “I love getting on stage. It’s been years since I’ve had a chance to do it because of travel, and living here in New York City, I’m pretty much anchored here now. I’m trapped! So, I thought it would be a good idea!”
“I can’t wait until you start doing this show and eight shows a week,” Ripa teased.
Turns out Consuelos, who shares kids Michael, 28, Lola, 24, and Joaquin, 22, with Ripa, isn’t the only family member headed to the stage.
“What’s interesting is that — and we’ve not talked about this on the show — our youngest son and recent University of Michigan School of Drama graduate is also going to be on Broadway in “Death of a Salesman” at basically the same time,” Ripa gushed. “So, every night, I’m going to have this choice, like, who do I see tonight? Do I go see my husband, or do I go see my beloved son?”
“I’m just going to be seeing hella theater,” joked the “Hope & Faith” star.
“Fallen Angels” begins their preview on March 27, before officially opening at New York City’s Roundabout Theatre on April 19.
Consuelos has an extensive acting background, recently starring in “9-1-1,” “Summer Breeze,” “Primos,” “How I Met Your Father,” and “Only Murders in the Building.”
Ripa, meanwhile, explained in December why she hasn’t acted in recent years.
“It’s not that I don’t appreciate it, it’s not that I don’t love it. But I really am devoted to this show and my podcast,” the author, who has continued to executive produce multiple projects, told Entertainment Weekly at the time.
“I feel like my plate is full. Also, we have three adult kids, and I like to be present in their endeavors,” Ripa added. “Our daughter is now starting to perform in the music scene in London, so I like to be able to be present if she needs or wants me there.”
The matriarch has been candid on her close-knit family over the years.
In 2023, Ripa revealed that Consuelos was “insanely jealous” in the beginning of their relationship.
“My biggest complaint about you over the course of our marriage—and this is not recent because it definitely changed — but you used to be insanely jealous and that was a hard pill to swallow,” she said to Consuelos while on her “Let’s Talk Off Camera” podcast. “It’s very hard being married to somebody who is jealous.”
In one particular case, Ripa said her husband had a “perception of a scenario.”
“It was our first week of marriage, because we didn’t take our honeymoon until later,” the talk show host detailed. “You were working and I went to visit you in Boston. We went to this Italian restaurant and the waiter was like a very cute old man, he’s definitely in his 70s, if not 80s. He leaned down and he said, ‘And for the principessa?’”
Consuelos called it his “character flaw.”
“I remember that,” he said. “Look, at age 25, I was pretty insane. But that jealousy thing definitely followed me for a while. I’m not jealous anymore.”
