WAKE UP with BWW 7/15/2015 - THE WILD PARTY, Roger Rees and More!
By: Jessica Showers Jul. 15, 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: Sutton Foster gets wild at Encores! tonight, Jennifer Holliday heads to Texas, and Broadway remembers Roger Rees!
Next up in our series of stars introducing BWW's morning feature is Arnie Burton (portrait by Walter McBride), currently starring in THE 39 STEPS off-Broadway! Among his Broadway credits are MACHINAL, PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, A FREE MAN OF COLOR and AMADEUS.
Photo by Walter McBride
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- Sutton Foster stars in Encores! Off-Center's THE WILD PARTY, opening tonight!
- ZACH Theatre's SOPHISTICATED LADIES, featuring Jennifer Holliday, begins this evening.
- Goodspeed's LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (more here) and MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG with Jason Tam open tonight in Connecticut!
- And Broadway will dim its lights tonight in memory of Roger Rees...
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- AMERICAN PSYCHO officially set its Broadway dates, and the show just unveiled its production art (right)!
- MISS SAIGON just announced its final extension in London and has its sights firmly planted on the Great White Way...
- We got a first look at footage from Broadway's AMAZING GRACE, plus a peek at photos and highlights from 'BUDDY' at The Muny, and Benedict Cumberbatch in rehearsal for HAMLET!
- Marlo Thomas will lead CLEVER LITTLE LIES off-Broadway this fall.
- The RUTHLESS! composer/lyricist team got engaged last night!
- And Jim Parsons heckled a late audience member last week with an apt Patti LuPone joke...
Broadway Weather Forecast: Thunderstorms throughout the day, with a high of 82 degrees.
What we're watching: The Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears performing "Streets of Berlin" from BENT, beginning tonight at the Taper in Los Angeles!
Video of the Day: In honor of THE WILD PARTY at Encores!, watch the original cast perform at the Tony Awards!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Laura Benanti, who turns 36 today!
Benanti last appeared in Radio City's New York Spring Spectacular, as well as concert productions of Parade and The Most Happy Fella. Among her Broadway credits are Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), Gypsy (which earned her a Tony and a Drama Desk in 2008), The Wedding Singer, Hair, The Violet Hour, Nine, Something Good, Into the Woods, Swing! and The Sound of Music. The prolific actress has also starred off-Broadway in Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, Children of Eden in concert, Time And Again and Wonderful Town. Benanti played 'Elsa Schrader' in NBC's The Sound of Music LIVE! in 2013, has starred on the small screen in Nashville, Nurse Jackie, Royal Pains, Go On and more. She will soon be see in the new TV series Supergirl.
Photo by Joan Marcus
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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