 Somers originated Dan in the US national tour cast of "Next to Normal", alongside 
Alice Ripley, Emma Hunton, Curt Hansen, and Jeremy Kushnier  and stayed with the production until its close on July 30, 2011.Somers recently revived his role as Dan Goodman in Penn State's CentreStage production of "Next to Normal", which played at the Pavilion Theatre from June 6 to 14, 2014.As of December 2016, he is a standby for the role of Larry Murphy in "Dear Evan Hansen" on Broadway.