WAKE UP with BWW 5/11/2015 - 'REVOLVER CREEK', HAY FEVER and Galas, Galas, Galas!
By: Jessica Showers May. 11, 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: 'REVOLVER CREEK' debuts off-Broadway, HAY FEVER opens in London, and a wealth of galas take over New York tonight!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Athol Fugard's THE PAINTED ROCKS AT REVOLVER CREEK opens off-Broadway tonight!
- HAY FEVER, starring Felicity Kendal, opens this evening in London.
- The Elliot Norton Awards will be held in Boston tonight, with FINDING NEVERLAND among the nominees...
- And it's another gala-filled evening, with the Actors Fund honoring Bloomberg & Freeman, NYTW's starry celebration of designer Bob Crowley, and STELLA BY STARLIGHT recognizes Ethan Hawke and more.
- Plus, Roundabout presents its first-ever casino night fundraiser, hosted by Burstein, Block and Baker!
NEWS YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND:
- Alfie Boe will succeed Ramin Karimloo in Broadway's LES MISERABLES.
- Encores! 2016 season will feature CABIN IN THE SKY, 1776 and DO I HEAR A WALTZ?
- HAMILTON swept off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel Awards - click here for the list of winners!
- We got a peek (right) at Jesse Tyler Ferguson and more in rehearsal for THE TEMPEST.
- Speaking of Ferguson, he's tapped OITNB's Lea DeLaria, Kate Mulgrew and more to design bow ties!
- Rob McClure will appear in The Muny's INTO THE WOODS and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!
- And Tony winner Elizabeth Wilson has died at 94...
Broadway Weather Forecast: The week starts off partly cloudy with a high of 80 degrees!
Quote of the Day: A word from 'REVOLVER CREEK' writer Athol Fugard...
"What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer."
-- Athol Fugard (via BrainyQuote)
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Charlotte d'Amboise, who turns 51 today!
Tony nominee d'Amboise last appeared on Broadway in Pippin as 'Fastrada', a role she is reprising in select cities on tour. Among her past Broadway credits are A Chorus Line, Sweet Charity, Contact, Chicago, Company, Damn Yankees, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Carrie, Song and Dance and Cats. She also starred in this year's Carousel at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Photo by Kevin Thomas Garcia.
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!