WAKE UP with BWW 4/21/2015 - DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, Drama League Noms and More!
By: Jessica Showers Apr. 21, 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: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO brings the Russian revolution to Broadway tonight, and this year's Drama League nominees will be announced today!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- DOCTOR ZHIVAGO opens tonight on Broadway - check back later for our Review Roundup!
- Cherry Jones and Denis O'Hare will announce the 2015 Drama League nominees today.
- TUTS presents the 13th Annual Tommy Tune Awards tonight in Houston...
- And Frank Sinatra's ON THE TOWN screens as part of the Tribeca Film Fest tonight!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- Stephen Adly Guirgis' BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama!
- SOMETHING ROTTEN! leads the 2014-15 Outer Critics Circle Award nominations - see the full list.
- The GROUNDHOG DAY musical will debut at the Old Vic before heading to Broadway!
- Judith Light and Jessie Mueller are announcing the Drama Desk nominees this week.
- BWW is launching a new webseries - SCHOOL'D - this May!
- Matthew Lillard will make his NYC directing debut with COLLECTED SHORTS this spring.
- BC/EFA's BROADWAY BARES: SOLO STRIPS 2015 is coming to 42West next month...
- Queen Latifah has signed on for the New York Pops' 2015 Gala!
- And we got a look (above, right) at the premiere of JANE AUSTEN'S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE at La Mirada.
Broadway Weather Forecast: Cloudy with a little bit of rain; high of 66. Safe to say you should bring your umbrella to work all week!
Quote of the Day: In honor of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO's opening, a word from original author Boris Pasternak...
"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."
-- Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (via Goodreads)
Video of the Day: Go behind the scenes with the 2015 edition of THE 24 HOUR MUSICALS!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to John Cameron Mitchell, who turns 52 today!
Creator and current star of Broadway's Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Mitchell has also appeared on the Great White Way in The Secret Garden, Six Degrees of Separation and Big River. He also helmed Kingdom of Earth off-Broadway and appeared onstage in Missing Persons, Hello Again, The Destiny of Me and more. Mitchell last starred on the small screen in HBO's Girls. He wrote, directed and produced the film Shortbus and also directed Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart in the 2010 film adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Rabbit Hole.
Photo by Joan Marcus
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!