Lindsay Mendez enlists co-stars Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe for NYC wedding

Lindsay Mendez enlisted her Merrily We Roll Alongside co-stars Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe to play two particular roles throughout her current marriage ceremony to actor J Alex Brinson.

The Broadway star, 41, lately tied the knot throughout an intimate ceremony in New York Metropolis. For the Central Park nuptials, Groff served as officiant whereas the Harry Potter actor was forged as ring bearer.

In photographs and movies shared to Instagram, the Frozen actor might be seen standing between the bride and groom within the park’s Bethesda Terrace as he pronounced the couple husband and spouse. One other photograph confirmed Radcliffe, wearing a blue go well with with high-top sneakers, handing the 2 marriage ceremony bands to Brinson. Mendez’s three-year-old daughter Lucy, from a earlier relationship, additionally stood alongside her mom as a flower woman.

Mendez and Brinson, who met on the set of the CBS collection All Rise, introduced their engagement on Christmas Day in December 2023. Their nuptials got here only one month after asserting they had been anticipating their first baby collectively.

“Our household band is increasing! And we’re bursting with pleasure! J and I can’t wait to make Lucy an enormous sister and welcome our new child this fall,” Mendez captioned her Instagram put up, which featured three pairs of vibrant graphic sneakers lined up subsequent to some crocheted yellow booties. “I’m additionally so grateful for the unrelenting assist of my @merrilyonbway producers and firm. Collectively, they’ve made it in order that I can fortunately work safely, all whereas rising this true Broadway child.”

Throughout an look on Late Evening with Seth Meyers earlier this month, the Tony Award winner opened up in regards to the pleasure of anticipating a child whereas concurrently taking the Broadway stage. “I preserve considering that they’re going to know Uncle Dan and Uncle Jon’s voices,” she instructed host Seth Meyers. “They’re going to know a [Stephen] Sondheim rating once they come out of the womb, that’s fairly cool.”

Mendez, Groff, and Radcliffe star alongside one another in Broadway’s first revival of Merrily We Roll Alongside on the Hudson Theatre. The musical follows three greatest buddies over the course of 20 years: Broadway composer-turned-film producer Franklin Shepard (Groff), playwright and lyricist Charley Kringas (Radcliffe), and theatre critic Mary Flynn (Mendez). The revival, directed by Maria Friedman, made its solution to Broadway in October 2023 following a sold-out off Broadway run on the New York Theatre Workshop in 2022. Performances are scheduled till July 2024.

In the meantime, Radcliffe has his personal motive to have fun after changing into a first-time father final yr. The 34-year-old British actor, who welcomed a “little boy” along with his longtime girlfriend Erin Darke in April 2023, beforehand shared how fatherhood has been the “neatest thing that’s ever occurred” to him.

“He’s very cute,” Radcliffe instructed Further. “We’ve moved right into a much less screaming section and he’s now giving us little smiles and guffawing.”

“It’s been a loopy few months, as anybody who’s been by way of parenthood would attest,” Radcliffe added. “Nevertheless it’s additionally the literal neatest thing that’s ever occurred, so it’s nice. I really feel very fortunate to have the ability to have this time with him. It’s superior.”