The Brightest Lights on Broadway: Chasten Harmon

In the big new musical Mr. Saturday Night, Harmon stars as Annie Wells, agent to Buddy Young Jr., an old-school comedian trying to make a comeback. Billy Crystal played Buddy in the 1992 movie of the same name (his directorial debut), and he’s now playing the role onstage opposite Harmon at the Nederlander Theatre. What has Harmon already learned from the comic master? “Know yourself. Stay true to yourself. Believe in yourself,” says Harmon. “You don’t get a career like Billy has by taking whatever you can get. You get it by being intentional with every single thing you say yes to.”