The “Live” hosts’ 23-year-old son is appearing in “Death of a Salesman.”

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos cheer on son Joaquin in his Broadway debut

The "Live" hosts' 23-year-old son is appearing in "Death of a Salesman."

By Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt

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April 10, 2026 3:52 p.m. ET

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Mark Consuelos, Kelly Ripa, and Joaquin Consuelos on opening night. Credit:

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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos were there to support son Joaquin on Thursday, as he made his first official appearance on Broadway.

He plays Young Biff in Joe Mantello's new revival of Arthur Miller's *Death of a Salesman*, which costars Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf.

On opening night, the trio attended the show's after-party at landmark Katz's Deli, where they all posed for a photo.

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Joaquin, a 23-year-old 2025 graduate of the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre & Dance, has appeared in previews of the production since March.

Ripa gushed about her excitement on her morning show last month, after watching her son work on March 10.

"Just to see our kid on stage thrilled me," the *Live With Kelly and Mark *host said after seeing the show last month, per PEOPLE. "It's crazy. Doesn't make any sense. ... If you would have told me when he was a newborn, 'Oh 22 years from now he'll be starring on Broadway in *Death of a Salesman*, I would have thought you were on drugs."

Ripa described the production, which runs through Aug. 9, as "unbelievable" and "incredible."

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"Just to see Joaquin up there took my breath away," Ripa said. "Took my breath away. Incredible, incredible cast, production, staging — the whole thing."

It turned out that he had asked Ripa not to attend the first few shows. But his father had popped up as a surprise.

"He's amazing," Mark Consuelos said of his son. "He did such a good job. I was watching him with a smile on my face. And [I] cried."

Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa with their kids in 2015.

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Along with Joaquin, the couple shares two older children: son Michael, 28, who's also an actor, and 24-year-old daughter Lola, who works in the music industry.

Ripa and Consuelos often chat about their family, including their kids, on their morning talk show, which Ripa has said does not go unnoticed.

"Now our children, who are adults, meet people who will come up to them and say, 'Oh, I've watched you grow up. I'm so proud of you,'" she's recalled to PEOPLE. "And that means something to us."

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