Tom Hewitt

Hewitt displayed his prodigious musical gifts as Rochester in a 1997 musical version of "Jane Eyre" at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse and rounded out the year in the Guthrie Theatre production of David Hare's play "Racing Demon." He returned to Broadway as Victor Garber's understudy in the award-winning "Art" in 1998 before again replacing John Vickery, this time as the villainous Scar in the stage version of "The Lion King." Following a small role in an episode of the Manhattan-shot NBC drama "Third Watch" in 2000, Hewitt undertook what promised to be his breakthrough, the role of the transvestite Dr. Frank N Furter in the Broadway revival of "The Rocky Horror Show" under the direction of Christopher Ashley.