WAKE UP with BWW 10/30/14 - THE REAL THING Opens and More!

- IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU set a starry cast for its Broadway debut this spring!
- YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU has extended through February 22...
- Billy Porter, Allison Williams, Norm Lewis and more will take part in Lincoln Center's 2015 AMERICAN SONGBOOK season.
- We got a first look (right) at New Group's STICKS AND BONES and STEEL MAGNOLIAS in Atlanta!
- Steven Pasquale will play 'Billy Bigelow' in Lyric Opera of Chicago's CAROUSEL this spring.
- The casts of Broadway's PIPPIN and MATILDA will perform in CBS's Thanksgiving Day Parade next month!
- Christopher Sieber, John Bolton, Betsy Wolfe and more will star in a benefit performance of MR. MAGOO'S CHRISTMAS this holiday season...
- Neil Patrick Harris and husband David Burtka will appear on AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW, plus Lily Rabe is returning as 'Sister Mary Eunice'!
- And Danny Strong just held a reading of his new rock musical GALILEO, with Lena Hall, Anthony Rapp and more.

Broadway Weather Forecast: High of 60 and sunny! Perfect for Halloween Eve (let's hope the good weather carries over for trick-or-treating and parties tomorrow...).

Quote of the Day: THE REAL THING's Maggie Gyllenhaal on sticking to your guns...

"A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it."
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal (via BrainyQuote)

What we're reading and looking forward to: Jez Butterworth's THE RIVER, out now in paperback from TCG Books, and onstage next month starring Hugh Jackman!

Video of the Day: Stage great Sir Ian McKellen makes a guest appearance in the new music video for George Ezra's 'Listen to The Man'. Check it out below!

And finally, a Happy Birthday shout-out to Matthew Morrison, who turns 36 today!

Morrison, well known for his role as 'Will Schuester' in FOX's GLEE, just announced that he will be returning to Broadway in 2015, but no word yet on the show. His past Broadway credits include South Pacific, A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, The Light in the Piazza (for which he was nominated for a Tony and a Drama Desk in 2005), Hairspray, The Rocky Horror Show and Footloose. Morrison has appeared off-Broadway in 10 Million Miles and South Pacific at Lincoln Center. He also appeared in ABC's TV movie version of Once Upon a Mattress.