WAKE UP with BWW 9/23/14 - Bennett & Gaga Get CHEEK TO CHEEK, BROADWAY SALUTES and More!

By: Sep. 23, 2014
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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: Bennett & Gaga's CHEEK TO CHEEK is out today, Harvey Fierstein hosts BROADWAY SALUTES, JERSEY BOYS welcomes back an old friend, PBS salutes Joan Rivers and more!

Next up in our series of Broadway stars introducing BWW's morning feature is Tony nominee Sheryl Kaller (portrait by Walter McBride), currently directing WHILE I YET LIVE, which begins performances tomorrow. She has also helmed Broadway's NEXT FALL and MOTHERS AND SONS.

Sheryl Kaller wants you to WAKE UP with BWW!
Photo by Walter McBride.

TODAY'S TOP ITEMS:

Wilcox and Cusack in BRIGHT STAR

WHAT YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:

Broadway Weather Forecast: Mostly sunny with a high of 71 degrees during the day; low of 58 tonight, so bring a sweater to the show!

Quote of the Day: Lady Gaga on accepting yourself for who you are...

I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
-- Lady Gaga (via BrainyQuote)

What we're listening to: Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga's CHEEK TO CHEEK, out today! Read Pat Cerasaro's in-depth review of the album HERE, and watch two studio performances -- "Anything Goes" and I Can't Give You Anything But Love" -- below!

And finally, a Happy Birthday shout-out to Jason Alexander, who turns 55 today!

Well known for his portrayal of 'George Costanza' on the long-running sitcom Seinfeld, Alexander is also an accomplished stage actor. He won the 1989 Tony and Drama Desk awards for Best Actor in a Musical for Jerome Robbins' Broadway. Among his other Broadway credits are Merrily We Roll Along, The Rink, Broadway Bound (which he just directed in Los Angeles), and Accomplice. He has also been nominated for a Drama Desk Award for off-Broadway's Personals and has appeared in Forbidden Broadway and Light Up the Sky. Alexander recently acted in the big screen adaptation of Lucky Stiff.

Jason Alexander (right) directs Noah James in
BROADWAY BOUND at the Odyssey Theatre.

See you bright and early tomorrow, BroadwayWorld!


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