Aaron Tveit Gets Personal Onstage at Café Carlyle

Originating a role on Broadway, a Tony Award, “Sweeney Todd.” This month, Aaron Tveit is checking another item off his New York performer bucket list: a residency at Café Carlyle.  His solo show at the iconic uptown venue has been several years in the making, with Tveit waiting for the right moment to make it a reality. “The Carlyle really has seemed like this beacon of a place to perform as a New Yorker,” says Tveit. “I didn’t want to simply throw a show together for The Carlyle. It felt like a place to do a new show.” Timing, as they say, is everything. The beloved Broadway tenor signed on to take over the lead role in “Sweeney Todd” this spring, and his Café Carlyle residency was announced — and quickly extended — to debut the month after the show’s closure.  “I felt like ‘Sweeney’ was a step in a new direction, and a little more serious and a little more adult than some of the other stuff that I had done,” Tveit says. “So it seemed like a really nice pairing to go from that right to this other thing that would be hopefully another new experience, and another way to

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