WAKE UP with BWW 7/29/2015 - FUN HOME on LATE NIGHT, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at The Muny and More!

By: Jessica Showers Jul. 29, 2015

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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: FUN HOME heads to LATE NIGHT, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST opens in Forest Park, THAT '70S SHOW mama heads to the stage and more!

TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:

- Be sure to set your DVR! FUN HOME becomes the first Broadway musical to perform on LATE NIGHT tonight.
- Kate Rockwell & Nicholas Rodriguez star in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, opening tonight at The Muny!
- Greg Vrostos & Angel Desai lead 'FRANKIE AND JOHNNY', starting tonight in the Berkshires.
- THAT '70S SHOW's Debra Jo Rupp stars in MEMORY HOUSE, beginning this evening at Chester Theatre...
- And 54 Below tributes Tina Turner tonight with 'SIMPLY THE BEST'!

Rabe & Linklater in CYMBELINE!

NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:

- Matthew Broderick signed on for Broadway's SYLVIA, and the show is on the hunt for a dog model!
- Queen Latifah and Mary J. Blige have joined NBC's THE WIZ LIVE!
- Stephen Schwartz, Patti LuPone and more are set for Symphony Space's 2015-16 season.
- We got a first look (right) at Lily Rabe & Hamish Linklater in CYMBELINE at the Delacorte, plus a peek at Cynthia Erivo & more in SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD in London, shots of Valerie Harper & Sally Struthers in Ogunquit's NICE WORK, and photos and highlights from Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma's BIG FISH!
- 'CURIOUS INCIDENT' has announced its new cast for the fall.
- Hunter Foster & Jennifer Cody will lead SPAMALOT in Rochester!
- Frank Langella will appear in HBO's adaptation of ALL THE WAY.
- KINKY BOOTS' Cyndi Lauper is working on another Broadway project...
- The cast of off-Broadway's INVISIBLE THREAD is headed to Uganda.
- And stage stars Eddie Redmayne & Helen Mirren are among the 2015 TIFF lineup!

Broadway Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy with a high of 91 degrees. Anyone carrying around a portable fan yet?

What we're listening to: August Wilson's entire 10-play Century Cycle, streaming now via The Greene Space!

Video of the Day: Watch Emily Padgett belt Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory" at 54 Below (plus check out pics from the concert here)!

And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Josh Radnor, who turns 41 today!

Radnor will soon return to Broadway in She Loves Me. He starred in last year's Disgraced and made his Broadway debut in 2004's The Graduate. The actor also took the stage off-Broadway in Eight Days (Backwards) and in a Los Angeles concert production of Company. Radnor is best known for his role as 'Ted Mosby' in the long-running sitcom How I Met Your Mother; he will next appear on TV in the mini-series Mercy Street. His first time writing and directing for the big screen was the film Happythankyoumoreplease, followed by Liberal Arts -- both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Hari Dhillon and Josh Radnor in DISGRACED.
Photo by Joan Marcus

See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!

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