Adam Gerber Takes Over for Paramour's Jeremy Kushnier in Shear Madness Off-Broadway

Shear Madness cast member Adam Gerber has replaced the Paramour-bound Jeremy Kushnier as Eddie in the off-Broadway premiere of the worldwide hit. Ethan Dubin has taken over as Gerber's previous character Mikey. Directed by Bruce Jordan, the hair salon-set murder mystery comedy is playing at New World Stages.

The cast also includes Jordan Ahnquist, Kate Middleton, Patrick Noonan and Lynne Wintersteller.

Marilyn Abrams and Jordan adapted Shear Madness from the 1963 play Scherenschnitt by German playwright Paul Pörtner. Their English reworking opened in Lake George in 1978 with Abrams and Jordan starring and at the helm. After further developments, the show moved to Boston for what it was treated as an out-of-town run before New York. Over 30 years later, the comedy still resides at Beantown’s Charles Playhouse.

The show incorporates improv and audience participation as theatergoers question the cast of characters in a unisex hair salon after the landlord, Isabel Czerny, is murdered. Think Drood with blow dryers.