WAKE UP with BWW 10/3/14 - LENNON, MISS SAIGON, CURIOUS INCIDENT and More!
Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? This weekend's big news: LENNON kicks off tonight, FOUND appears at the Apple Store, and 'CURIOUS INCIDENT' opens on Sunday!
Next up in our series of Broadway stars introducing BWW's morning feature is Kyle Taylor Parker (portrait by Walter McBride), star of the KINKY BOOTS national tour. Take a sip of your coffee and do your Friday happy dance before heading down to the news!
Photo by Walter McBride.
THIS WEEKEND'S TOP ITEMS:
- Part concert, part biography, LENNON: THROUGH A GLASS ONION begins tonight at the Union Square Theater!
- Atlantic Theater's FOUND gives a preview today at the Apple Store; be sure to check back for photos!
- IT HAS TO BE YOU, with NURSE JACKIE's Adam Ferrara, begins performances at Abingdon tonight.
- And Broadway's 'CURIOUS INCIDENT' opens on Sunday night!
WHAT YOU MISSED YESTERDAY:
- Aaron Tveit will make his UK stage debut in ASSASSINS at the Menier Chocolate Factory!
- Brian d'Arcy James, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Leslie Odom Jr. and more signed on with Lin-Manuel Miranda for HAMILTON at The Public.
- We got a first look (right) at Broadway's IT'S ONLY A PLAY, plus photos from Paper Mill's CAN-CAN!
- THE COUNTRY HOUSE and SPEED-THE-PLOW opened last night; read our Review Roundups here and here!
- The CAMELOT National Tour, kicking off next week, announced its full cast.
- Anna D. Shapiro will take over as Artistic Director of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre...
- And we got a look at the first trailer for Sutton Foster's new TV series YOUNGER, premiering in January!
Broadway Weather Forecast: High of 69 degrees for the weekend. Sunny today and Sunday with thunderstorms on Saturday.
Quote of the Day: In honor of LENNON beginning tonight, here's a quote from the pop star himself...
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
-- John Lennon (via BrainyQuote)
What we're watching: MISS SAIGON's 25th Anniversary with Lea Salonga will be broadcast in full on BBC2 tonight, with clips online! Check out the teaser below...
Video of the Day: Highlights from THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, opening this weekend!
And finally, a Happy Birthday shout-out to John Patrick Shanley, who turns 64 today!
Shanley won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Drama Critics Circle and Obie awards for his play Doubt: A Parable, which was recreated on the big screen in 2008 by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Amy Adams and was nominated for five Oscars. In 1988, Shanley won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Moonstruck. Among his other plays are Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, The Big Funk, Sailor's Song, Defiance, Storefront Church and most recently, Outside Mullingar.
Photo by Walter McBride
See you bright and early on Monday, BroadwayWorld!
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