WAKE UP with BWW 7/9/2015 - Broadway at Bryant Park, Seinfeld & Quinn, THE VISIT and More!
By: Jessica Showers Jul. 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: Broadway in Bryant Park kicks off today, THE VISIT celebrates its cast album at B&N and more!
TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:
- The casts of STOMP, FUERZA BRUTA, WICKED and IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU perform at today's Broadway in Bryant Park!
- Jerry Seinfeld helms Colin Quinn's THE NEW YORK STORY, starting off-Broadway tonight.
- THE VISIT company comes together tonight for a CD signing and performance at B&N.
- Outfest 2015 honors HEDWIG's John Cameron Mitchell this evening...
- And FUERZA BRUTA marks its 10th anniversary worldwide!
NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- SPRING AWAKENING will hold an open call for deaf actors in NYC!
- We got a first look (right) at Broadway's AMAZING GRACE, plus photos and highlights from HOLIDAY INN at The Muny, footage from BEACHES in Chicago, and rehearsal shots from CYMBELINE in the park!
- HAMILTON will offer $10, front-row lottery seats for every performance, plus The Roots are producing the show's cast album!
- The CABARET National Tour has added three new dates...
- Paul Alexander Nolan has signed on for DADDY LONG LEGS off-Broadway.
- This year's BROADWAY BARKS rounded out its lineup!
- Delta Goodrem will play 'Grizabella' in the Australian production of CATS.
- And five-time Tony nominee Jan Maxwell has decided to retire from theatre...
Broadway Weather Forecast: Rain this morning, some severe thunderstorms this afternoon. Careful out there!
Quote of the Day: A word from birthday boy Brian Dennehy...
"If you're sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to be almost negligible, or even in television. But in the theatre, there are still things to do, very interesting, very profound things."
-- Brian Dennehy (via BrainyQuote)
What we're looking forward to watching: The film adaptation of Chris Colfer's LAND OF STORIES books!
Video of the Day: Watch Angela Lansbury & James Earl Jones in DRIVING MISS DAISY, coming to PBS this month!
And a Happy Birthday shout-out to Brian Dennehy, who turns 77 today!
Two-time Tony winner Dennehy last appeared on Broadway in Love Letters, and before that, Desire Under the Elms, Inherit the Wind, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Death of a Salesman and Translations. He recently starred off-Broadway in The Iceman Cometh opposite Nathan Lane. The actor rose to fame for his role as 'Sheriff Will Teasle' in the film First Blood with Sylvester Stallone, as well as his parts in the TV series Kojak, Lou Grant, Dallas and Dynasty. Dennehy has received six Emmy nominations for the TV movies To Catch a Killer, The Burden of Proof, A Killing in a Small Town, Murder in the Heartland and Our Fathers, as well as the TV presentation of Broadway's Death of a Salesman, which earned him a Golden Globe.
Photo by Carol Rosegg
See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!
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