WAKE UP with BWW 3/9/2015 - BROADWAY BACKWARDS and More!
By: Jessica Showers Mar. 09, 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: BC/EFA hosts BROADWAY BACKWARDS tonight, and BWW streams the Olivier nominations today!
Next up in our series of stars introducing BWW's morning feature is Michael Arden (portrait by Walter McBride), star of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at Paper Mill, who has appeared on Broadway in THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' and BIG RIVER, as well as off-Broadway's BARE and more!
Photo by Walter McBride
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Rob McClure and Julie Halston co-host BC/EFA's 2015 BROADWAY BACKWARDS tonight!
- The New Group celebrates 20 years this evening...
- OITNB's Kate Mulgrew and UGLY BETTY's America Ferrerra lead a reading of THE COMPARABLES, while Dana Ivey and Dakin Matthews star in THE CRADLE SONG tonight.
- BroadwayWorld streams this year's Olivier nominations, announced by Manville & McAvoy, LIVE today!
- And the company of Broadway's WOLF HALL meets the press today, so stay tuned for photos!
NEWS YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND:
- Bryan Cranston will reprise his role in an HBO adaptation of ALL THE WAY!
- We got a first look (right) at THE HEIDI CHRONICLES on Broadway!
- Plus a peek at highlights and new images from THE AUDIENCE on Broadway. See what the critics thought here!
- We got a look at Chilina Kennedy taking her first bow as Carole King in BEAUTIFUL!
- THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY unveiled a new poster for its upcoming tour...
- Arielle Jacobs and PJ Benjamin join Broadway's WICKED this week!
- BC/EFA's annual Easter Bonnet Competition returns next month.
- And Deborah Cox will star in the world premiere of JOSEPHINE at Asolo Rep next year!
Broadway Weather Forecast: Rain this morning with clouds and a high of 53 degrees this afternoon!
Quote of the Day: A word from ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK's Kate Mulgrew, who appears onstage for The Lilly Awards Foundation tonight...
"The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me."
-- Kate Mulgrew (via BrainyQuote)
Video of the Day: Check out Tragedy's viral heavy metal cover of GREASE's "You're The One That I Want"!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Juliette Binoche, who turns 51 today!
Binoche made her Broadway debut in Betrayal, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award in 2000. She will return to the stage in Antigone at the Kennedy Center this season. The actress has also graced the London stage in Naked and appeared in a world tour of Akram Khan's modern dance production in-i. Binoche kicked off her film career in France, appearing Rendez-vous before hitting the international market in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The English Patient (for which she won an Oscar in 1997), Chocolat, Dan in Real Life, Certified Copy, Cosmopolis, Godzilla, Clouds of Sils Maria and more.
Photo by Joan Marcus
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!