WAKE UP with BWW 4/10/2015 - CAROUSEL, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS and More!

By: Apr. 10, 2015
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Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? This weekend's big news: Jonathan Groff discusses his career today, a starry CAROUSEL begins in Chicago, and AN AMERICAN IN PARIS opens this Sunday!

THIS WEEKEND'S TOP ITEMS:

- BWW's SAG Foundation Career Conversations series continues with Jonathan Groff today!
- Lyric Opera of Chicago's CAROUSEL, starring Steven Pasquale and Laura Osnes, begins tonight...
- GIGI's Vanessa Hudgens visits THE TONIGHT SHOW this evening.
- And AN AMERICAN IN PARIS opens on Broadway this Sunday!

The cast of FUN HOME!

NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:

- MAMMA MIA! will close on Broadway this fall after 14 years on the Great White Way.
- Laura Benanti is hosting the 60th Annual Drama Desk Awards!
- Josh Gad, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz are working on a new musical comedy film...
- O'Malley, Monk and Elder will honor James Lapine at Signature's Sondheim Award Gala.
- AN AMERICAN IN PARIS is getting a cast album; plus Bon Jovi will be featured on the FINDING NEVERLAND concept album!
- We got a first look (right) at Broadway's FUN HOME, as well as highlights from WOLF HALL, plus a peek at CLINTON THE MUSICAL!
- James Byous, Lindsay Pearce and more are set to star in an immersive AMERICAN IDIOT in L.A.
- And Broadway veteran Richard A. Dysart has passed away at 86.

Broadway Weather Forecast: Highs in the mid-to-low 60s all weekend, and sunny for Saturday and Sunday!

Quote of the Day: In honor of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS's Sunday night opening, a word from George Gershwin...

"True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time."
-- George Gershwin (via BrainyQuote)

What we're watching: Norm Lewis's WHO AM I? American Songbook concert, airing on PBS tonight!

Video of the Day: Watch Ben Platt sing the heck out of Sam Smith's "Stay With Me" at 54 Below!

And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Laura Bell Bundy, who turns 34 today!

Bundy last starred on Broadway in Legally Blonde, for which she received a Tony nomination in 2007. Her other credits are Hairspray and Wicked, as well as off-Broadway's Ruthless!. She also toured with The Sound of Music, appeared in Gypsy at Paper Mill and in Rock of Ages in LA. Among her screen credits are the films Jumanji (as Young Sarah Whittle) and Dreamgirls, the soap opera Guiding Light, and the TV series Veronica Mars, How I Met Your Mother, Hart of Dixie, and Anger Management. As a country singer, Bundy's single "Giddy On Up" was performed at the 2010 Academy of Country Music Awards and is featured in the video game Just Dance 3. She released her album Achin' and Shakin' in 2010. The singer unveiled a new single, "Two Step", in 2013.

Borle & Bundy during the opening night curtain call for LEGALLY BLONDE in 2007.
Photo by Walter McBride

See you bright and early on Monday, BroadwayWorld!


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