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Neil Patrick Harris says he and David Burtka plan to move to NYC and do theater when his sitcom ends

When Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka met and fell in love, each was appearing in a Broadway show – Harris in Assassins and Burtka in Gypsy.

They moved to Los Angeles when Harris landed the role of Barney Stinson on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother which remains a big hit in its eighth season.

But Harris says once the show ends its run, the couple and their children, Gideon and Harper, will return to their theater roots.

‘Our plan after How I Met Your Mother wraps up the series is to head east,’ Harris tells EW.com. ‘David’s a New York theater guy, he’s done Edward Albee and Gypsy on Broadway, so he’s clamoring to get back. I think that’s a great place to have our kids raised and go to school.’

Burtka told Oprah Winfrey earlier this year that when they first moved to Los Angeles, he thought it would be easier for him to find television work. Frustrated, he became a professional chef but now works as a correspondent for E! News.

Harris returned to the Broadway stage for one day this week for a concert performance of Assassins, the Stephen Sondheim musical that won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival.

The two-time Emmy winner and two-time Tony Awards host would like to revive his stage career for more than one night. He had also previously appeared on Broadway in Cabaret and Proof and was in the national company of Rent.

‘I’d love to do something very against type,’ he says. ‘I’d love to revive something dirty and raw, to do something radical like Hedwig, something that would really be outside the box.’

The question is, will How I Met Your Mother EVER end?

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