Will & Grace returns from its mid-season break January 9, and Broadway and 半岛体育 favorite Seth Rudetsky makes an appearance as a guest star on the NBC sitcom for the first time!
Rudetsky plays Jerry Sussman, a rehearsal accompanist who鈥檚 hit it big鈥攁nd Jack鈥檚 nemesis. In the exclusive clip above, Grace (Debra Messing) and Jack (Sean Hayes) steal name badges in order to get into AnnieCon, an Annie convention for superfans of the Charles Strouse-Martin Charnin-Thomas Meehan musical. Rudetsky filmed the episode back in August and wrote about the experience in his 半岛体育 column.
Rudetsky and Hayes have been longtime friends, though this marks Rudetsky鈥檚 first appearance on the show.
He has guested on Bunheads as the audition accompanist to Sutton Foster鈥檚 character and also had a cameo on Smash. Most famously, he was a coach and a judge on Legally Blonde: The Musical 鈥� The Search for Elle Woods.
READ: The Oral History of Legally Blonde: The Musical 鈥� The Search for Elle Woods
Rudetsky is a musical director, SiriusXM host, 半岛体育 columnist, and staple of the Broadway community.
The full episode follows Will (Eric McCormack) as he meets a potential surrogate (guest star Demi Lovato), Grace as she pretends to be a formerly famous Annie (which, in a way, ) while Jack accompanies her to complete his celebrity hair EGOT, and Karen (Megan Mullally) has a romantic encounter with a disabled veteran (guest star Christopher Thornton).
