WAKE UP with BWW 2/17/2015 - HAMILTON, CABARET's New Sally, FIRST WIVES CLUB in Chicago and More!
By: Jessica Showers Feb. 17, 2015
Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: HAMILTON opens at the Public, Sienna Miller joins CABARET, Michael C. Hall returns to HEDWIG, THE FIRST WIVES CLUB musical begins in Chicago and more!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Lin-Manuel Miranda's HAMILTON opens off-Broadway tonight!
- Roundabout Underground's LITTLE CHILDREN DREAM OF GOD officially kicks off tonight.
- Sienna Miller takes over the role of 'Sally Bowles' in CABARET this evening...
- This week, Michael C. Hall returns to HEDWIG as John Cameron Mitchell's knee heals.
- John Kander & Greg Pierce's new musical KID VICTORY begins in D.C.
- The Broadway-bound FIRST WIVES CLUB musical starts this eveing in Chicago!
- And the companies of SOMETHING ROTTEN and IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU meet the press today, so stay tuned for photos!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- THE SECRET GARDEN will be Manhattan Concert Productions' next musical at Lincoln Center!
- HAMILTON could be headed to HBO...
- Off-Broadway's CLINTON THE MUSICAL has set its full cast!
- PS Classics will release a recording of the new Vernon Duke musical MISIA this spring...
- We got a first look (right) at ROCKET TO THE MOON off-Broadway!
- Kenny Ortega is working on a Spanish-language musical series.
- And singer/songwriter Lesley Gore has passed away at the age of 68.
Broadway Weather Forecast: Morning flurries with a high of 29 degrees. Clear and cold tonight.
Quote of the Day: A word from the late, great Lesley Gore...
"I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it."
-- Lesley Gore (via BrainyQuote)
What we're listening to: The STRANGE MAGIC Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, out today. It features vocals by Broadway vets Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming and more!
Video of the Day: See Kelli O'Hara and Ken Watanabe in a new promo for THE KING AND I!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Hal Holbrook, who turns 90 today!
Holbrook is best known for his solo show Mark Twain Tonight!, which has graced the Great White Way three times, and which earned him a Tony in 1966. His other Broadway credits include An American Daughter, Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, I Never Sing for My Father, The Apple Tree, Man of La Mancha, The Glass Menagerie, Tartuffe, Incident at Vichy, Marco Millions, After The Fall and Do You Know the Milky Way? Holbrook rose to fame after appearing as 'Deep Throat' in the 1976 film All the President's Men. He later starred on-screen in Into the Wild, Lincoln and in the TV series Sons of Anarchy.
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!