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Ayanna Prescod One minute you’re a teenager ready to “rebel against the universe,” then in the blink of an eye you’re a senior making peace with the life that was handed to you. That’s the short and sweet premise of Noah Haidle’s buttery new drama, “Birthday Candles.” In the play, now having its New York premiere at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway, Debra Messing (“Will & Grace”, “Smash”) plays the protagonist Ernestine, methodically and graciously moving through the aging process and proving that the recipe to thrive is to simply survive.The ingredients of this Roundabout Theatre Company production are equally measured.

John Earl Jelks, currently appearing in the HBO Max series Love Life, has joined the previously announced Debra Messing and Enrico Colantoni in the cast of the upcoming Broadway production of Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles.

Two-time Emmy winner and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andre Braugher will make his Broadway debut in the spring, joining previously announced lead Debra Messing in Roundabout Theatre Company's upcoming production of the Noah Haidle playBirthday Candles.Directed by Vivienne Benesch, the freewheeling take on the cycle of life begins previews April 2 ahead of an April 21 official opening at the American Airlines Theatre; the limited engagement is scheduled to run through June 21.Enrico Colantoni,