Producers Amanda Lipitz, Henry Tisch and Jordan Roth have released a new promotional video for their Broadway-bound musical Galileo, and Neil deGrasse Tyson is the voice guiding it. In the clip, a copy of the show’s book, The Starry Messenger, is sent to the edge of space as the production pushes toward its Broadway launch.
That launch is why the video is drawing attention now. Galileo begins performances Nov. 10 at the Shubert Theatre, 225 West 44th Street, with opening night set for Sunday evening, Dec. 6. The musical has a book by Danny Strong and music and lyrics by Michael Weiner and Zoe Sarnak, and it centers on Galileo Galilei and his astronomical discoveries.
Raúl Esparza will star in the title role, returning to Broadway for his first appearance there in more than 13 years. Jeremy Kushnier and Tony Award nominee Joy Woods are also in the cast, and Esparza and Kushnier are reprising their roles from the show’s 2024 world premiere at Berkeley Rep.
The video arrives with one detail that gives it a sharper edge than a standard launch piece. Amanda Lipitz said it was not AI-generated, even though its space-themed presentation is built around the image of a book traveling beyond Earth. That makes the clip less a speculative stunt than a carefully made piece of promotion designed to sell the scale of the show without pretending to be something it is not.
What comes next is straightforward: the campaign is done, and the Broadway run is about to begin. With the cast in place, the creative team including Brian Usifer, Rachel Hauck, Susan Hilferty, Kevin Adams, John Shivers and Ethan Tobman attached, and the production team now leaning on the new video to set the tone, Galileo moves from marketing into the real test at 225 West 44th Street.
