WAKE UP with BWW 4/9/2015 - WOLF HALL and CLINTON Bring Politics to Broadway!
By: Jessica Showers Apr. 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: WOLF HALL brings the Tudors to Broadway, CLINTON officially takes its campaign off-Broadway and more!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- WOLF HALL: PARTS 1 & 2 opens on Broadway tonight - check back for our Review Roundup!
- CLINTON THE MUSICAL opens off-Broadway!
- Nick Blaemire leads an industry reading of the new play TIMEPIECE today...
- Patti LuPone and more gather for BRIDGET EVERETT GETS F*CKED BY ARS NOVA this evening!
- And Bartlett Sher and Christopher Gattelli discuss THE KING AND I in a pre-performance event tonight.
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- The Danny Burstein-led FIDDLER ON THE ROOF revival will hit Broadway next January!
- San Francisco Opera's SHOW BOAT is coming to the big screen...
- Speaking of movies, Disney is working on a live-action version of PINOCCHIO!
- Jordan Dean, Lance Coadie Williams & Zoe Winters have signed on for LCT's SHOWS FOR DAYS...
- The NEW YORK SPRING SPECTACULAR has extended at Radio City!
- We got a first look (right) at Signature Theatre's SIMPLY SONDHEIM premiere.
- Liza Minnelli will perform in her first concert in over a year this summer!
- Barry Manilow secretly married his manager Garry Kief last year...
- HELLO KITTY is coming to the West End this fall.
- And Louis C.K. wants to try his hand at Broadway!
Broadway Weather Forecast: High of 48 degrees and cloudy today with showers off and on tonight.
Quote of the Day: A word from WOLF HALL author Hilary Mantel...
"It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires."
-- Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (via Goodreads)
What we're watching: THE COMEDIANS, with Broadway vets Billy Crystal and Josh Gad, debuting tonight on FX!
Video of the Day: Watch Jane Lynch and Kate Flannery perform from FIDDLER in Lynch's SEE JANE SING tour!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Cynthia Nixon, who turns 49 today!
Nixon last starred on Broadway in The Real Thing. Her past credits on the Great White Way include Wit, Rabbit Hole (which won her a Tony in 2006), The Women, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Indiscretions, Angels in America, The Heidi Chronicles, Hurlyburly and The Philadelphia Story. She recently directed Rasheeda Speaking off-Broadway. The actress is well known for her role as 'Miranda Hobbes' on Sex and the City and has appeared on the big screen in Amadeus, The Manhattan Project, Let It Ride, Baby's Day Out, Warm Springs, Little Manhattan, The Babysitters and Rampart, as well as the Sex and the City movies. Among her other TV credits are The Big C, World Without End, Alpha House and Hannibal.
Photo by Joan Marcus
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!