Not long after the ball drops on 2015, Broadway’s Hand to God and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder will be leaving the Great White Way.

According to producer Kevin McCollum, Hand to God, his critically acclaimed/Tony® Award-nominated comedy about a demonic hand puppet and the boy who wields it, will be the first to depart on January 3rd, bidding adieu to Broadway’s Booth Theatre only to re-open one month later (February 5th) across the pond at the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End.

Hand to God. Photo: Joan Marcus

“Having played an extraordinary nine-month run on Broadway, London is the natural next step for a new American play that is this exciting. We are thrilled that Hand to God will soon be experienced by audiences all over the world,” said McCollum.

Moritz von Stuelpnagel will recreate his Tony®-nominated direction in London—most likely with a British cast, as there has been no mention of taking the celebrated U.S. company of Steven Boyer, Geneva Carr, Marc Kudisch, Sarah Stiles, and Michael Oberholtzer along for the ride.

A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. Photo: Joan Marcus

Meanwhile, 2014’s Tony®-winning musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder will take wing on January 17th, at which point its star, Jefferson Mays, will have died more than 6,000 deaths as various members of the ill-fated D’Ysquith family, targeted for demise by a distant heir to the family fortune.

“The success of this show—which we’ve often said is nothing short of a miracle—is a testament to the artists who have created it and the audiences who have embraced it,” said producer Joey Parnes. “This experience has been such a constant joy and, while we wish it could run on Broadway forever, we are excited about bringing the show to audiences from coast-to-coast with our tour.”

A Gentleman’s Guide, which announced it had recouped its entire Broadway production capitalization last April, will have played close to 1,000 performances at the Walter Kerr Theatre and lays claim to that theatre’s highest single-week gross ($1,062,740.60 over eight performances on the week ending December 28, 2014).