Edward Juvier is no stranger to metro area theater stages. He’s been part of the casts of “Les Miserables” at Detroit’s Fisher Theatre and visited twice with 25th-anniversary productions of “The Phantom of the Opera.” At the Meadow Brook Theatre, he was part of “Writing Ken Taylor” in 2022 and earlier this year, performed in the cast of “Father of the Bride.”

So returning starting this week with “Some Like It Hot” — the Tony Award-winning adaptation of the 1959 feature film of the same name — at the Fisher will be a sort of homecoming for the Texas-raised actor.

“I love the transient lifestyle,” says Juvier, 48, who calls New York City home when he’s not on the road. “There’s several cities I go back to work in a lot — St. Louis, San Francisco, Sonoma, Florida sometimes. I really enjoy meeting new people in different places and getting to know the audiences and the theaters and just becoming a part of the community.”

Meadow Brook, he adds, has become part of the list, too.

“It’s wonderful working there,” Juvier says. “They run a beautiful little theater there that’s a real part of the national theater conversation. They really play to their audience; they know exactly the shows their audiences want to see and they deliver it for them.”

Meadow Brook is equally fond of Juvier, according to Artistic Director Travis Walter. “Edward’s talents have brightened the Meadow Brook Theatre stage over the past few years,” Walter says. “Our audiences love him and can’t wait to see him on the Fisher stage in Detroit.”

The stage was an aspiration for Juvier early in his youth.

He began singing in grade school, while his family was living in California. “Singing was part of my family,” Juvier recalls. “My sister plays piano, so our parents would make us get up and do family shows — her play, me sing. My mom took us to see all the shows that were playing locally, all the musicals, and we’d watch the old movie musicals — ‘The Sound of Music,’ ‘Mary Poppins,’ ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’ We watched them almost as if they were required reading.

“I always knew I wanted to do something artistic; I just didn’t know where it was going to land until I met theater people.” His first show was a production of “Oklahoma!” in junior high school, but his resolve was set when he performed with a professional company in Galveston when he was 18.

“I just looked at all those (actors) I was working with and I thought: ‘This is something people can do for a living. This is a job!’” says Juvier, who also was a varsity swimmer. “(Theater) had always been extra-curricular for me at that point.

“I was inspired by all those character actors I worked with. I thought: ‘That’s what I want to do. I want to be a character actor and make people laugh and have a good time.’”

The decision led Juvier to the Boston Conservatory, where he graduated in 2000 — and just before that, he was cast in the “Les Miserables” tour, spending three years with the show. He wound up alternating between the road company and the Broadway production, “a beautiful start to my career” that certainly set a high bar for anything that came in its wake.

“I think getting that major goal ticked off that so many people in our industry have so early in my career helped me in terms of not needing to get the hustle accomplished,” Juvier acknowledges. “I was able to make decisions based on the people I liked to work with — directors, choreographers, other actors, producers.

“That’s not to say it’s been easy or that I’m not also hustling. Of course I hustle. But because of (‘Les Miserables’) that wasn’t’ so pressing for me. What was more pressing was making connections and meeting people and letting that lead me moving forward.”

Juvier was “a huge fan” of “Some Like It Hot” when it opened in 2022, winning a Tony for Best Musical and a Best Featured Actor nomination for Kevin Del Aguila as Osgood Fielding III, who Juvier is portraying on the show’s first national tour.“Very rarely do I go and see a show and think to myself: ‘Hmmm, that’s a show for me …’ That rarely happens, but it certainly happened here,” Juvier says of the musical comedy, set in the prohibition era. He found that playing the kind-hearted Fielding — a lovelorn millionaire hotel owner in San Diego who falls for one of the aspiring entertainers (Jerry/Daphne) who came west to avoid trouble back in Chicago — presented its own challenges.

“Playing a good guy is always more difficult than playing a bad guy, 100 percent, and (Oscar) is just pure goodness,” Juvier explains. “There’s nothing nefarious about him. Every decision he makes just comes from a naturally good place. What I love about Oscar in this show is he’s truly crafted to be a guiding post for the other characters to be more true to themselves.

“I try to live like that, too. I feel like I’m very close to the character. They keep telling me: ‘Just try to be more yourself. Stop trying to act,’ which is nice to hear.”

The “Some Like It Hot Tour” is only a couple of weeks old, but Juvier always keeps his future in sight. While he has some writing and directing aspirations, he’d mostly like to be doing more of the same, for as long as he can.

“I’m interested in film and TV, but I’m a creature of the theater,” Juvier says. “I love the ritual of it. I love doing the same thing over and over again, having the same inside jokes, the moments with the stagehands, the people on stage. It’s truly like going to church for me.

“So I just want to continue my theatrical career on the trajectory it’s been — meeting people, making connections and making people feel good, which is what it’s all about.”

“Some Like It Hot” opens Tuesday, Oct. 1 and runs through Oct. 13 at the Fisher Theatre, 3011 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit. 313-872-100 or broadwayindetroit.com.