Top Stories You Missed on BWW This Weekend - 10/29-10/30/2016

Oct. 30, 2016
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Below are BroadwayWorld.com's most popular articles that you might have missed from this weekend Sunday, October 30, 2016 - Sunday, October 30, 2016. Catch up below!

1) Breaking News: THE COLOR PURPLE Will Play Final Broadway Performance in January; National Tour to Launch Next Fall
by BWW News Desk - October 30, 2016

The Tony Award-winning revival of THE COLOR PURPLE will play its final performance on Broadway on Sunday, January 8, 2017. Upon closing, the production will have played 449 regular and 33 preview performances at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 W 45th Street). A North American tour of the production will launch in the fall of 2017. (more...)


2) BWW Spooktacular - Our Top 10 Broadway-Themed Halloween Costumes for 2016
by Caryn Robbins - October 30, 2016

With Halloween just around the corner, it's time once again for BWW's Top Broadway-themed costumes to help make your holiday festivities extra special. (more...)


3) Review Roundup: LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES Opens on Broadway — All the Reviews!
by Review Roundups - October 30, 2016

The Broadway production of Donmar Warehouse's Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which is playing a limited engagement through Sunday, January 22, 2017 only at the Booth Theatre (222 W 45th St), officially opens tonight, and BroadwayWorld has all the reviews! (more...)


4) VIDEO: Debbie Gibson Reveals Past Struggles with Prescription Drugs, Calls Out Theatre Community
by BWW News Desk - October 30, 2016

In an interview for Oprah's 'Where Are They Now,' Debbie Gibson recently revealed that during her years as a young performer, she didn't hew as close to squeaky clean as the image that she projected: 'I remember being on the road at, like, 25, touring with theater and doing my own cocktail of Tylenol PM and Xanax,' the actress confessed. (more...)


5) BWW Review: Qui Nguyen's VIETGONE Raps Its Refugee Love Story
by Michael Dale - October 30, 2016

Playwright Qui Nguyen is a tricky fellow. First he has an actor appear on stage, claiming to be him, welcoming the audience with the usual pre-show ritual about turning off cell phones and warning against any form of recording. (more...)


6) Roundup: COME FROM AWAY Plays Newfoundland Before Toronto and Broadway Runs
by BWW News Desk - October 30, 2016

Come From Away, a new musical about what happened when 38 planes landed in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, following the September 11 attacks, is set to begin a Broadway run this coming spring, following a Toronto run beginning in November. Ahead of both of these productions, however, the musical made a stop to play two performances in the town where it all began. Below, check out the reactions to the emotional two-show run: (more...)


7) Perpetual Students: A Historic Look at Chekov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD on Broadway
by Alexa Criscitiello - October 30, 2016

The Cherry Orchard is Anton Chekhov's masterpiece about a family on the edge of ruin-and a country on the brink of revolution. The story of Lyubov Ranevskaya and her family's return to their fabled orchard to forestall its foreclosure captures a people-and a world-in transition, and presents us with a picture of humanity in all its glorious folly. By turns tragic and funny, The Cherry Orchard still stands as one of the great plays of the modern era. (more...)


8) BWW TV: Back to Punxsutawney- Andy Karl Gets Ready to Bring GROUNDHOG DAY to Broadway!
by BroadwayWorld TV - October 30, 2016

Fresh from London's Old Vic, Andy Karl is back in New York, getting ready to bring Phil Connors to Broadway. GROUNDHOG DAY will begin previews on Thursday, March 16, 2017 at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street) and open, as previously announced, on Monday, April 17. (more...)


9) Video Roundup: How Much Tuna is #2much2na? Find Out with These Videos of the Stars OH, HELLO Has Pranked!
by BWW News Desk - October 30, 2016

At long last, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's wildly popular alter egos, Gil Faizonand George St. Geegland, have made their debuts on The Great White Way in their acclaimed masterpiece, Oh, Hello on Broadway. Performances for Oh, Hello on Broadway began on Friday, September 23 at The Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street), where it will run through January 8, 2017. Alex Timbers directs. (more...)


10) BWW TV: The KID CRITICS Get Jellicle at CATS!
by BroadwayWorld TV - October 30, 2016

We are continuing the series with Tai (10), Isabella (12), and Charles (9), who just stopped by the Neil Simon Theatre to check out Cats. Curious of what they thought about the show? Find out below! (more...)


11) Photo Coverage: Kate Baldwin Concludes EXTRAORDINARY MACHINE at Feinstein's/54 Below
by Stephen Sorokoff - October 30, 2016

Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin (Big Fish, Giant, John & Jen, Finian's Rainbow, Songbird) concluded her current engagement at Feinstein's/54 Below last night and Broadwayworld was there.  In her show, titled Extraordinary Machine, Kate presented an evening of songs and stories, as she candidly and comically deconstructed the facade of being a Broadway star, mother, and Midwest ingenue turned New Jersey suburbanite. (more...)


12) BWW's On This Day - October 30, 2016
by - October 30, 2016

Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on October 30 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events! (more...)


13) Garth Drabinsky Opens Up About Time in Prison and Returning to the Theatre as a Producer
by BWW News Desk - October 30, 2016

As reported by BroadwayWorld, equal parts infamous and revered Broadway producer Garth Drabinsky is following up his stint in prison with a new musical, Sousatzka, starring Victoria Clark, Montego Glover, and Judy Kaye. The production is set for an out-of-town tryout in Toronto this winter, before taking a bow on Broadway in fall 2017. In a new, in-depth feature with The Star, Drabinsky covers his plans for returning to the theatrical world, and shares his thoughts about his past financial indiscretions as a producer and business owner. (more...)


14) FROZEN Composers and Neil Patrick Harris Team Up for Paul Ryan's Inner Monologue Song
by BWW News Desk - October 30, 2016

Following in the footsteps of Sara Bareilles' song written from President Obama's point of view (and featuring vocals from Tony Winner Leslie Odom Jr.), This American Life commissioned Frozen songwriters, Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, to write a song as the inner monologue of Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.  (more...)




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