He played the role of Sheriff Joe Sutter in the musical "The Spitfire Grill", where he introduced the song "Forest For the Trees". He then had the lead role of Chris in the 1998 American tour of "Miss Saigon". In 2002, he played Robbie Faye in the New York production of "A Man of No Importance" and Archibald Craven at the Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation's concert of "The Secret Garden", alongside Michael Arden, Jaclyn Nedenthal, Will Chase, Max von Essen, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Tony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti, whom he later married.