Broadway AM Report, 4/27/2016 - 'LONG DAY'S JOURNEY' Opens and More!

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TODAY'S BIG NEWS: LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, starring Jessica Lange, opens on Broadway, plus ANYTHING GOES bows at Goodspeed and Helen Mirren chats Shakespeare at the NYPL!

NEWS YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:

- Will Swenson is joining DISASTER! for nine shows!
- THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM, DEAR EVAN HANSEN and more are among the 2016 Off Broadway Alliance Award nominees.
- The national tours of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS and HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH have set their schedules...
- We got a first look (right) at GAME OF THRONES' Kit Harington in DOCTOR FAUSTUS, photos and footage from the opening of FULLY COMMITTED, and a peek at SHE LOVES ME in the recording studio!
- Danai Gurira and Martha Plimpton will be honored at the 2016 Lilly Awards.
- HAMILTON won BC/EFA's 30th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition, which raised over $5.5 million.
- Matthew Morrison is eyeing NBC's HAIRSPRAY LIVE, which will air from L.A. with a live audience...
- And David Bowie and Enda Walsh's LAZARUS could be landing in London!

Broadway Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy with a high of 63 degrees for Hump Day!

Quote of the Day: A word from LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT playwright Eugene O'Neill...

"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace."
-- Eugene O'Neill (via BrainyQuote)

What we're looking forward to listening to: Broadway's SHE LOVES ME cast album - check out the cast in the recording studio!

Video of the Day: Watch DANCING WITH THE STARS recreation of HAIRSPRAY's "You Can't Stop the Beat"!

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