WAKE UP with BWW 5/1/2015 - AKHENATEN, DOGFIGHT in Sydney and More!
By: Jessica Showers May. 01, 2015
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: Broadway stars lead North Carolina Theatre's NEXT TO NORMAL, DOGFIGHT heads to Australia and more!
THIS WEEKEND'S TOP ITEMS:
- Lauren Kennedy stars in North Carolina Theatre's NEXT TO NORMAL, starting tonight!
- Charl Brown, N'Kenge, Ted Keegan and more preview the new musical AKHENATEN in concert this evening...
- Pasek & Paul's DOGFIGHT makes its Australian premiere tonight.
- And the company of THE WAY WE GET BY meets the press today, so stay tuned for photos!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- We spoke with this year's Tony nominees - click here for photos!
- MAN OF LA MANCHA could be celebrating its 50th anniversary on the Great White Way...
- Roundabout has extended ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
- Eric Idle, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Craig Robinson & Merle Dandrige are set to star in SPAMALOT at the Hollywood Bowl!
- We got a first look (right) at James Barbour in Broadway's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA!
- FULL HOUSE! THE MUSICAL! is headed off-Broadway...
- Christopher Gattelli is directing and choreographing a reading of IN TRANSIT...
- In the UK, Amelia Lily will lead AMERICAN IDIOT in London this summer, Derek Jacobi has signed on for Kenneth Branagh's ROMEO AND JULIET, and Broadway's SOMETHING ROTTEN! is eyeing the West End!
- And Angela Bassett will return for AHS: HOTEL, while John Lithgow could portray Winston Churchill in Netflix's THE CROWN series!
Broadway Weather Forecast: High of 59 degrees for today, climbing to 76 by Sunday with some sun!
Quote of the Day: A word from THE WAY WE GET BY's Amanda Seyfried...
"Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel."
-- Amanda Seyfried (via BrainyQuote)
What we're watching (and can't get enough of!): 13-year-old Joshua Colley performing as 'Jean Valjean' at this year's EASTER BONNET competition!
Easter Bonnet 2015 - Les Miserables PresentationOpting to skew younger in casting, LES MISERABLES Broadway set out to find a new Jean Valjean and landed with a star-in-the-making performance of "The Confrontation" by 13-year-old Joshua Colley, who stunned the #BwayBonnets audience in his vocal duel with current Javert understudy John Rapson. #tbt
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Video of the Day: The first trailer for Signature's CABARET, starring Wesley Taylor and Barrett Wilbert Weed!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Yasmina Reza, who turns 56 today!
Reza's plays God of Carnage and Art both won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2009 and 1998, respectively. She is also the author of Life (x) 3, A Spanish Play, The Unexpected Man, The Passage of Winter and Conversations After a Burial. A novelist, her most recent work is Happy are The Happy. She also adapted God of Carnage for the big screen, writing the screenplay for Carnage, which debuted in 2011. Several TV movie versions of Art also appeared in the late '90s.
Photo by Henry McGee/Globe Pictures
See you bright and early on Monday, BroadwayWorld!